SCOTUS KILLS GROKSTER

 

1. Funny how they worry about someone trying to get music from people that already bought their product and all they are doing is sharing it online, just like kids did with Cassettes years ago, when the real threat is from inside their own companies and in Asia.

   Posted by Archangel       06/27/2005  at  11:29 AM  



2. the way commiewood sponser America hate they deserve to lose every dollar, they would have a hard time tracing dvd’s being traded in the bar/ at school/ by post, the dummies in commiewood are pushing away any goodwill they might have had, I used to avoid copies but not now and like Archangel pointed out the real loss comes from asia and no one is pointing the bone at them!

   Posted by cornish chris       06/27/2005  at  02:00 PM  



3. When the record labels stopped selling singles and turn out albums which are crap, with the exception of one or two songs, their business is going to suffer. People have found a way to get the songs they want to hear another way.

   Some labels are finally wising up and catching up to the technology by making individual songs available on line for individual legal sales. This results in more CD sales. There are artists who’s only exposure is through P2P file sharing and putting their music on their own sites for free download. They get no promotion from the record labels and this is their only widespread public exposure.

   I think it’s fair to say that P2P file sharing forced their hand into this venture and keeping up with the technology just as the VCR forced movie makers to release movies in that format. Now they’re making a mint on VCR and DVD sales. So much so that some movies go right to DVD and barely play in theaters.

   I can see the culpability of individuals offering the files for illegal sharing but I don’t see the sense in holding the software publisher responsible for the illegal use. There are many legal and appropriate uses of file sharing software. I really thought that this had been settled in the previous case against Sony and the possibility that VCRs could be used to illegally copy legally protected movies.

   Oh well, I suppose consistency is not a hallmark of the SCOTUS.

   Posted by StinKerr       06/27/2005  at  02:34 PM  



4. Grokster, like communism, is a Red Herring here. A clear statement from SCROTUS that a manufacturer is liable for the illegal use of their product is frightening. Especially if your company name is Colt, Remington, Ruger, etc.

   Ok, the Supremes also said that there has to be a push involved - that the companies have to be showing at least a wink-wink-nudge attitude towards the illicit usage. Oh yeah? When we have presidential elections trying to be decided by examing chads for voter intent the we-see-it-because-we-want-it-to-be-there implicit becomes the explicit very quickly.

   This is yet another bad decision from the 9.

   Posted by Drew458       06/28/2005  at  02:48 PM  



5. P2P won’t die, they’ll just go to decentralized servers, it’s already a growing trend.  Hard as hell to shut down.

   Posted by Elliott       06/29/2005  at  02:32 AM  

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