{"id":883,"date":"2005-06-27T20:49:59","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T20:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=883"},"modified":"2005-06-27T20:49:59","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T20:49:59","slug":"hollywood_1_adw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood 1, Adware-Bloated P2P Software 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court issued its long-awaited <a href=\"http:\/\/wid.ap.org\/scotus\/pdf\/04-480P.ZO.pdf\">Grokster decision<\/a> (PDF version) today.  It probably will <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20050627-5042.html\">disappoint<\/a> those who were hoping for a ringing endorsement of P2P activity.   The 1984 Sony decision appers to still apply, insofar as the Court has affirmed that a technology with potentially infringing uses does not automatically expose the developer to copyright liability.  However, the Court seems to have established some sort of conduct-based test for determining whether a developer should be held liable for infringement.  In other words, did the developer induce users of the technology to engage in infringing activity?  This is a pretty vague standard and it will be interesting to see how it evolves in lower court.  But if I was the CEO of Grokster or Streamcast, I&#8217;d start thinking about moving my operations overseas or looking for a new line of work.  Because I don&#8217;t think any court is gonna buy the argument that Grokster is all about spreading the complete works of Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court issued its long-awaited Grokster decision (PDF version) today. It probably will disappoint those who were hoping for a ringing endorsement of P2P activity. The 1984 Sony decision appers to still apply, insofar as the Court has affirmed that a technology with potentially infringing uses does not automatically expose the developer to copyright <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=883' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}