The highest court in the land has been on a tear the past week or so. This time they’ve come down hard on Grokster and peer-to-peer file sharing, ruling that the networks can be held liable for users’ illegal file trading:
“We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties,” Justice David H. Souter wrote for the court.
This is the other shoe that people have been waiting to hear drop ever since Napster version 1.0 went belly-up.
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