Grokster Loses Copyright Case

NEW YORK – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that Internet file-sharing services may be sued for encouraging copyright infringement by their users, who share digital music files.

The unanimous decision sends the case between Grokster, a music file-sharing service, and MGM Mirage back to a lower court. The court’s justices said sufficient evidence existed to demonstrate unlawful intent on the part of file-sharing services to hold them liable for the copyright-infringing activities of their customers.

I rarely see a P2P network encourage trading of copyrighted files. This may affect other P2P in the near future though.. Source: Forbes