Grakster?
AP (03.30.05):
"Even if entertainment companies win their Supreme Court battle for new authority to protect movies and music on the Internet, lawyers say it won't be easy to shut down the decentralized computer links used to trade songs and films. 'This sort of thing is out there now and you can't go - and I may be wrong about this - but I don't you think you can go into people's homes and pull (software) out, or that anybody's likely to do that,' said Theodore Olsen, the former U.S. solicitor general now working for entertainment companies.'" Internet Music Theft Likely to Survive Supreme Court DecisionWill they be able to shut this stuff down? No. They won't even be able to slow it down. Showing just how much attention he pays to the cases he's hearing, Justice Antonin Scalia referred to the Defendent as "'Grakster, whatever this outfit is called.'"
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