Since he has spent only a couple of years behind the bench, John G. Roberts Jr., the new Supreme Court nominee, is something of a mystery to most legal analysts. And groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation that are trying to divine Mr. Roberts’ views on technology issues have even less to go on.
Mr. Roberts’ record on tech is "both sparse and mixed," according to the EFF. The organization credited him for siding with Verizon in January, 2004, when the Recording Industry Association of America tried to make the company turn over the names of file-sharing suspects. But the group criticized Mr. Roberts for his decision in another case, Luck’s Music Library Inc. v. Gonzalez, which upheld a provision that removed some foreign works from the public domain. (Deep Links)
