A new development: Morpheus just unanimously won their 9th Circuit case. The entertainment industry lawyers were so confident that they would prevail in the case that they did not have a statement ready for this scenario.
The justices actually addressed Congress and urged them not to pass anti P2P legislation so quickly. They added:
“we live in a quicksilver technological environment with courts ill-suited to fix the flow of internet innovation… The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to old markets, and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold through well established distribution mechanisms. Yet, history has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology be a player piano, a copier, a tape recorder, a video recorder, a personal computer, a karaoke machine, or an MP3 player. Thus, it is prudent for courts to exercise caution before restructuring liability theories for the purpose of addressing specific market abuses, despite their apparent present magnitude.”
Bravo.
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