“On March 29, the entertainment and technology industries will descend upon Washington, D.C. to argue their respective sides before the Supreme Court in the landmark case of MGM v Grokster”, as MIT Technology Review reports.
It is a battle between the entertainment industry, that is trying to increase its revenues by fighting file-sharing, and the technology companies that argue that “it is not the province of the software firms to police their networks”.
It is the last face of an ongoing battle that will lead either to the destruction of the P2P industry, or to a celebration of the consumer’s right to share the products, that he or she legitimately bought, with his/her peers.
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