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Article: Going with the wind: in a world of networked computers, files will be exchanged.(Headliners)
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- Video Business
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- March 7, 2005
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
* Peer-to-peer networks are as simple as the protocol that allows the WorldWide Web to exist.
* Telling people not to exchange files when they have that ability is like telling the wind to not blow.
WASHINGTON -- Even if the studios don't actually lose their case against Grokster and Streamcast in the Supreme Court, it's hard to see how they can win.
Roughly speaking, the plaintiffs are asking the court to articulate a new standard of secondary liability for copyright infringement under which a defendant whose business "depends on" illicit uses of a technology--as the studios claim Grokster's does--could be held ...