Professors Join the Fray as Supreme Court Hears Arguments in File-Sharing Case

U.S. Supreme Court justices struggled in a lively debate last week with how to balance the competing interests of the entertainment industry and developers of file-sharing technology. Some justices sharply questioned whether it was fair to hold inventors of a distribution technology liable for copyright infringement, while others suggested that it was wrong for a business to thrive on illegal copying.

In the case, MGM Studios Inc. vs. Grokster Ltd., movie and recording companies hope

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