RSSNo Supreme Court Decision on P2P Yet
By Nate Mook | Published June 20, 2005, 11:14 AM
Despite expectations, the United States Supreme Court said Monday it would not yet issue a much-anticipated ruling on the Grokster file sharing lawsuit that has divided the entertainment industry. A decision could be handed down as soon as Thursday, or sometime next week.
At issue is whether two P2P network operators, Grokster and StreamCast are liable for the copyright infringement committed by their users. The nation's high court also said it would not yet rule on whether cable companies and voice over IP providers deserve to be treated differently under a separate set of government regulations than standard telephone operators.
How about they think about how they're stripping our freedoms away each day - ha soon the internet will be secured as we will all have our own virtual names with little passwords to access the internet and we'll all be spied on with each little move we make inside or outside of the virtual world that lives in our computer or say *internet* Lets say it togeather guys our freedoms are being lost we can no longer hold a virtual file on a pc without it being held against us by the higher power. Enjoy your life everyone soon there won't be much left to enjoy till its all gone ...
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|Stealing is not a "freedom"--just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you have the right. Read your post. Do you hear yourself?
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|How about a service like Dijjer? Are they at all open to liability for copyright infringement even though the original content can be traced back to the source. It's a pretty neat concept and the ease of use and trackability seems to be a neat benefit:
www.dijjer.com
and I posted about it here:
http://hal.lco.net/Dijje...+Better+BitTorrent.aspx
The original content would be hosted on my website and then shared after that. Does that successfully defer liability to me as the owner of the website?
Thanks,
Hal
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|This is the year of Internet law reform, I hope the SC makes the right decision on this issue.
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|Well, rest assured... they will make the decision they feel is right. That may or may not be in accordance with what any one individual feels is right.
Personally, I am torn on this issue... on the one hand, I am all for supporting the musicians who produce GOOD music, and I continue to buy their CD's. On the other hand, I refuse to support the industry as a whole when they are charging $15-20 for a CD that only has TWO good songs on it and the rest are garbage.
As a LAN administrator, I also hate P2P programs because of the bandwidth consumption issue and the file security issue.
Ultimately, I'd like to see free services like Kazaa and Ares disappear forever, and services like iTunes, MSN Music, etc remain legit but without restrictions on the media, so that I can pay a reasonable price for the individual songs I like and not be restricted on what devices I use to listen to it.
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|agreed. Funny it hasn't been brought up--but in the past music artists had to have good CD's to be popular, now only one song sounds ok and P2P allows more one-hit wonders to be heard (and allows more sucky music to become popular ;)
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|Comon granies and grandfathers!
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