Jun 30 2005
More on the Grokster decision
Switched On: With Grokster decision, endangered gizmos will survive - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Here’s another article on how we won more digital rights than we lost in this decision. Basically, the Justices are saying that software vendors have to give more than a wink and a nudge to prevent the use of their technology for piracy. A service like the Apple iTunes store, which makes a sizable effort to prevent piracy, is rendered safe by this decision. On the other hand, a technology like BitTorrent, which was created to help share large files, can also be used to share movies, and may be left vulnerable by this ruling. We’re going to have to wait for the next legal challenge for more clarification, but I think this was a fair ruling.