Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Grokster Aftermath

There are a lot of ideas and concerns after the supreme court ruling against Grokster. The major question amongst most p2p users is: Does this mean the downfall of the p2p networks? Our thought is, not exactly. There are too many people that have had p2p for too long. Not to mention that many people use the networks for legitimate purposes, and the developing technologies are to valuable to abandon. Bittorrent disseminates large binary files and therefore has a legitimate function. If the remaining networks can show that their sole function is not to commit illegal actions they too may have a loophole. To further the argument, what is stopping p2p developers from expressly forbidding copyright infringement, then just not regulating or enforcing it on their networks?

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