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Monday, July 04, 2005

NY Times: Grokster decision doesn't matter


The Imps of File Sharing May Lose in Court, but They Are Winning in the Marketplace

The money quote: "Last week's Supreme Court decision 'will have little or no effect on file sharing,' said the project's founder, Ian Clarke, who is based in Edinburgh. American companies hoping to commercialize file sharing might find life more difficult, Mr. Clarke said, but companies based elsewhere, or anonymous software creators uninterested in profit, 'will continue to work on new, faster, and more powerful file-sharing applications, for as long as there is a public demand.' And in the borderless, largely ungovernable world of the Internet, it's that public demand that ultimately dictates the future."



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