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Arguably the most important copyright case in digital era is a United States Supreme Court verdict in which the Court collectively held that defendant P2P file sharing companies Grokster and Streamcast could be sued for inducing copyright infringement for marketing file sharing software. The SCOTUS Justices were convinced by the media industry and provided the industry with the copyright inducement standard. There really wasn't even a variance between the 7th court ruling on Aimster and the 9th that Streamcast's software was legal under Sony Beta Max, but they didn't seem to understand the ...

Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:06:36 -0500 at http://ezinearticles.com/?MGM-Vs-Grokste...id=1100378
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