Comments on: New challenge to file-sharing designers

By: Likelihood of Confusion by Ron Coleman

Likelihood of Confusion by Ron Coleman — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:21:56 +0000

Despite Demise of Real Property, Intellectual Property Doing Fine

As predicted in this space, the Supreme Court has ruled against Grokster, according to the AP. Says Justice Souter, “We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by…

By: flushingcomic

flushingcomic — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:22:42 +0000

why dont they just sue google for indexing copywrited files. thats just when a p2p engine does. cept a p2p engine is for people not websites. and you can download illeagel files through google. its all bs

KOPIMI

By: Chaser7016

Chaser7016 — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:55:33 +0000

Darn, the status quo remain the same and the hopes of file sharing destroying the cable business model may never materialize. ISP bill = pay for what you use, like your gas & electric bill.

I dont think this decision and the Broadband X decision does not bode well for competition and the US economy.

By: Max Hailperin

Max Hailperin — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:25:15 +0000

I made some similar points in my own blog posting, but went on to ask, and answer, what I see as the big question. Namely, what is the underlying strategy of the recording and movie industries? Why do they see it as a good thing to drive file sharers to ever more difficult to control technologies? See
http://blogs.mcs.gac.edu/index.php?p=81 for my answer.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:22:28 +0000

This actually will not hurt KaZaA and EDonkey, because those two programs are not based on one central server anymore, the links are all distributed from user to user all over the internet and are spread that way.
The only services that this is going to affect are Grokster and Streamcast, because they were marketed as a “illegal file-sharing software” and they were based on a central server that held the information about the IP’s of all the people sharing.
KaZaA and EDonkey have it in their agreements and EDonkey even has it on the main page of their client software that if you use their software for an infringing purpose, they do not support you and do not condone what you are doing.

By: The Antagonist

The Antagonist — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:50:11 +0000

The Antagonist has written several times about the fundamental truths that underlie the p2p debate and the futility of the issuance of legal threats and every other tactic tried thus far.

The latest articles in this series, both of which
cover issues currently outside of the bounds of acceptable peer-to-peer and economic discussion are,
“Filesharing – The New Economy of Community” [http://antagonise.blogspot.com/2005/06/filesharing-new-economy-of-community.html ] and “Morpheus/Grokster Senate Ruling Explained” [http://antagonise.blogspot.com/2005/06/morpheusgrokster-senate-ruling.html]

By: Smart Mobs

Smart Mobs — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:28:43 +0000

Major ruling in digital copyright: Supreme Court weighs in on intent

In a major ruling on digital copyright, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling on the Grokster case. The justices unanimously decided to send the case back to lower courts, finding that Grokster and Streamcast were deliberately and openly…

By: The American Mind

The American Mind — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:07:16 +0000

Busy Day at the Supreme Court

A bunch of Supreme Court rulings came down today. I’m going to wait a few more hours to gather more…

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:46:31 +0000

Thanks for the quick analysis. I am a 1L going into 2L who does research for a Professor and we waited for this decision before continuing on some Copyright Law work. I appreciate your insight to help me understand better.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:39:48 +0000

Thanks for this analysis. That’s how I read it too. I also think it was important that Souter in the decision for the court clearly stated that “mere knowledge” of possible infringing use is not enough. I think this decision could hurt companies such as Kazaa and Grokster while helping open-source groups such as Shareaza and others who create these products for free without advertising them.

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:38:47 +0000

For some reason haloscan won't let me trackback, so I'll just do a manual one. http://quante.blogspot.com/2005/06/mgm-v-grokster-report.html