Slowplay.com � Supreme Court to hear P2P file sharing case

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StreamCast Networks – the distributor of the file-sharing program Morpheus – and Grokster fight for their technological lives today in the United States Supreme Court, which will hear a case in which major record companies, movie studios, and music publishers demand that the two companies be held liable for their customers’ piracy. The plaintiffs claim that StreamCast and Grokster are “bad actors” that have created a market for illegal copies of songs and movies. Lawyers for the plaintiffs added that a company should be liable for its customers’ piracy when piracy is the product’s “principal or primary use.”