A Shot Across The Bow

America's highest court apparently knows what's been happnening in the nation's dorm rooms for the past few years, and with its decision Monday in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inv. v. Grokster Ltd, it's putting traders of music and movies on notice. The unanimous ruling, which The New York Times calls "a major victory" for Hollywood and the record business, found that Grokster could be sued for the money that record companies or movie studios say they loose through the swapping of copyrighted material. Bloggers are on the air about this -- Justice David Souter is BlogPulse's no. 5 bursty name today. In a pretty detailed breakdown, Ernest Miller writes that neither side achieved a definitive victory in the ruling, while Barking Moonbat speculates that Grokster and other file-sharing companies will just move out of the country. That seems to be what they're hoping for in all those dorm rooms out there: Sharkblog has the file-sharers' rebuttal.

Posted by Philip Ewing at June 28, 2005 11:03 AM

Category: The Soundscape