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...Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that peer-to-peer file-sharing networks could be held liable for inducing their users to commit copyright infringement—even if those same networks could be used to trade non-copyrighted material legally...
Souter’s opinion found evidence of intent to aid copyright infringement from both companies, following the collapse of popular file-sharing service Napster. Their revenue was dependent on their popularity among copyright infringers, he argued, and neither of them tried to develop a means by which copyrighted material could be filtered...
Despite claims that the companies made users agree not to distribute copyrighted material, the opinion found that Grokster and StreamCast both were aware of and actively encouraged illegal file sharing by responding to user e-mail requests for help playing copyrighted movies...
...Recording Industry Artists Association sued 11 Harvard students in April for violating copyright law, specifically mentioning i2hub, another file-sharing program...
...another case, the Court ruled against the Internet file-sharing service Grokster, pleasing the entertainment industry which argued that the technology encouraged theft of intellectual property. In the press case, New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Time correspondent Matthew Cooper have refused to tell a grand jury about their interviews with confidential sources in a case involving the leak of an undercover CIA operative's identity. A hearing in the case is scheduled Wednesday in federal district court in Washington, and the two reporters could face prison any time after that...