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...decision overturned a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in MGM v. Grokster, which found that software developers Grokster and StreamCast Networks met a standard of having “substantial non-infringing uses,” citing the precedent of a Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios decision about Betamax technology in the early 1980s...
...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...
...addition to the suits filed against college students, the RIAA press release also stated that new suits were filed against an additional 649 individuals who were illegally distributing copyrighted music via unauthorized peer-to-peer services like KaZaa, LimeWire, and Grokster...
...tracker sites in the U.S. and Britain, as well as criminal complaints against sites in France, Finland and the Netherlands. The industry is hoping that in a case scheduled for next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule against firms that produce file-sharing software, such as Morpheus and Grokster. Neither Cohen nor BitTorrent is named in the lawsuit, although an MPAA spokesman says Cohen is under scrutiny for continuing to develop the software "and making it easy to steal copyright material...
...wants to waste a day downloading a movie? "I've frequently suggested they give up on all this copy protection because it doesn't make a bit of difference," says Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer for the Electronic Freedom Foundation who defended Grokster against the movie industry's lawsuit. "It's not all the fancy locks that protect the industry. It's a great product at a great price...