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Recapped: SCOTUS bogus

Supreme Court’s busting up the blogosphere, with decisions on:

Grokster: SCOTUS ruled that Grokster — and other p2p software makers — are responsible for infringing uses. This’ll be Armageddon to Cory Doctorow, but there’s a level of reasonable mitigation (read on). Good wrap-up on Boing Boing, including a link to SCOTUSblog. Xeni will be on CNN tonight to discuss it. Some liveblogging too. More links from Jeff Jarvis and Paid Content, a glimmer of hope from Dave Pell, quiet “don’t sue us” grumbling from Gizmodo, a wink-wink from Cinematical, Valenti-hate from Defamer. Top 5-star Slashdot comment notes that it was unanimous. A reply also figures that this ruling won’t be used against Bittorrent. Word to the wise: set your /. threshold to 5 and leave it there for the next 50 years.

10 Commandments: You can stick ‘em in a historical exhibit, but don’t sell them…or put in a sort of big…display…I’m lost, really. I only vaguely know of these Commandments monuments as an Arrested Development prop. Jarvis is pleased, anyway.

Matt Cooper and Judith Miller: SCOTUS won’t hear their case.

All this rounded up on Mefi, with a quick update on last week’s crazy ruling.

In other news, Google is the new TV.

Finally, your daily bottom-feeder Gawker gossip.

GROKSTER UPDATES: Grokster decision as torrent; Hilary Rosen claims Lawrence Lessig is kind of her friend; a press conference to counter the RIAA/MPAA’s.

GOOGLE VIDEO UPDATE: official announcement.

This entry was posted by Kyle Bunch on Monday, June 27th, 2005 at 11:55 am and is filed under Cory Doctorow, Dave Pell, Feeds, Gawker Media, Jeff Jarvis, Jessica Coen, Lawrence Lessig, Mark Lisanti, Weblogs, Inc., Xeni Jardin. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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