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...Jimmy Buffett, Jay-Z and Avril Lavigne signed a brief supporting the record companies, while Heart, Brian Eno and Terence Trent D'Arby joined forces to support Grokster. It was a lineup that ensured no matter how the court ruled, the music at the victory party would suck." --JON STEWART...
...opinion, written by Justice David H. Souter ’61, sided with MGM on the grounds that Grokster and StreamCast, the developers of Morpheus software, consciously knew that their software was primarily used to pirate copyrighted media and actively promoted such...
...record is replete with evidence that from the moment Grokster and StreamCast began to distribute their free software, each one clearly voiced the objective that recipients use it to download copyrighted works, and each took active steps to encourage infringement,” Souter wrote in his opinion...
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...
...statistician found that 90 percent of the files available on Grokster were copyrighted...