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2005-06-27, 02:49 PM | [Ignore Me] #2 | ||
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Actually, all the Supreme Court said in its ruling is that MGM has the right to sue Grokster, not that Grokster must shut down. What's more, the court reffered the case to a lower court, one which initially rejected MGM's case, meaning that when the case goes to court, odds are, the ruling will be in favor of Grokster.
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2005-06-27, 03:28 PM | [Ignore Me] #5 | ||
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The supreme court found Grokster at fault because the software itself promotes infringement.
Justice Souter said: "We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties". Bittorrent is in the clear here, since its basically a method of distributing large files, and isn't expressely made for trading copyrighted content - in fact one of the first major uses of the bittorrent protocol was to distribute Linux distros. |
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2005-06-27, 05:15 PM | [Ignore Me] #6 | ||
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MGM should have the right to sue your OS manufacturer, cause people need an OS to run Grokster. They should be able to sue NIC manufacturers too for supplying a way for you to connect Grokster to the internet. And sue ISP's for allowing people who use Grokster to connect to the internet.
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