March 12th, 2007

File-Sharing Lawsuit Worries Techies

Brian Deagon, Investor's Business Daily

Two years after winning the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case MGM vs. Grokster, the entertainment industry is back in court to settle a fight some fear could handcuff technology innovation...

"Putting courts in the business of redesigning software is a dangerous precedent to set," said Fred von Lohmann, senior attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Do we want a world where every new technology gets it own federal judge to sit in judgment over the next software update?"

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