Grokster Wins Big in Ninth Circuit

The Importance of writes "Grokster has won big in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Read the decision: [PDF]. It is a very strong decision, basically bringing the Sony-Betamax decision into the modern age. Of course, the decision does make it clear that if Congress wants to change the law, they can (cough*INDUCE Act*cough). Read the whole thing, the actual opinion is only 18 single-column pages. See also, commentary from Jason Schultz, Ernest Miller, Cory Doctorow, and Ed Felten. And don't forget to thank EFF."

WOW

[illuminatedwax]

Holy fucking shit people. There has to be some kind of a catch. Common sense just doesn't *win* like this. There has to be something wrong.

--Stephen

Grokster quickly acted

[Anonymous Coward]

Trading the court decision for the latest Jenna Haze porn and 7 mp3s to be named later.

Hallelujah!

[tokered]

This is amazing!!!! I am jumping up and down in my office, my coworkers think I am crazy!!!

Notice that the judge also spoke in support of the Betamax decision!!! Take that Hatch!!!!

Do you think that this sends a strong statment to Congress? Does this reverse the Napster ruling?

I told you GWB is evil and controls the courts

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, wait..

More proof!

[grub]

Netcraft confirms it: the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is not dying.

Re:The most overturned appeals court?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Gee, I thought it was *exactly* the sort that gets the 9th in trouble- it's one that messes up the controls that the right wing conspiracy have put in place to keep the population down. Fair use is a *hippie commie* sort of thing, not the sort of thing any right-minded court would let loose, therfore it will be overturned.

Read?

[baudilus]

HAHA you said 'read the whole thing' LOL

Like that'll ever happen on slashdot...

In other news

[gorbachev]

Orrin Hatch's campaign contributions just grew by hundredfold.

Re:WOW

[Tongo]

Common sense just doesn't *win* like this.

Especially with the 9th Circus Court of Appeal.

Uh oh!

[mehaiku]

I, for one, welcome our new copyright infringing, ip thieving, file-sharing, socialist, everyone-share-and-share alike overlords. I guess the RIAA bribe, I mean campaign contribution, didn't make it through on time.

re:

[unformed]

It's April 1st dude.

Wait, no it's no. WTF? Crap, it's the end of the world, run for your lives!

Re:Only Matter of Time

[Anonymous Coward]

- WMD (This time for real)

Warez of Mass Distribution? :)

Re:Only Matter of Time

[mehaiku]

You forgot all of that filthy smut exchanged freely with no corporate oversite! Won't someone PLEASE think of the children!

Re:9th circus court of schlamiels.

[Westech]

From the wikipedia entry [wikipedia.org]: It is often called "the most overturned appeals court in the United States", but this is mostly a product of its high caseload. On a percentage basis...

It looks like the Wikipedia article that you referenced is one of the most overturned articles in Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]! This is one of those controversial articles that is edited back and forth over and over again by people with opposing viewpoints.

Re:WOW

[gottafixthat]

And here I thought the purpose of Congress was to provide balance and be the opposite of Progress. Silly me.

Re:More proof!

[Fnkmaster]

Hi, this post is all about the Ninth Circuit Judges, THE REAL NINTH CIRCUIT JUDGES. This post is awesome. My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about the Ninth Circuit Judges. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

Facts:

1. The Ninth Circuit Judges are liberals.

2. Ninth Circuit Judges get overturned ALL the time.

3. The purpose of the ninth circuit judge is to flip out and create new laws out of thin air.

Ninth Circuit Judges can decide any cases they want! Ninth Circuit Judges piss off conservatives ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this Ninth Circuit Judge who was eating at a smoothie bar. And when some dude dropped his iPod the Ninth Circuit Judge legalized filesharing. My friend Mark said that he saw a Ninth Circuit Judge totally uppercut some law just because the law was passed by a Republican Congress and made no sense.

And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re:Now go donate! Most of you haven't...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going to side with the downloaders on this one and let the other guy pay. I mean, those folks at the EFF should be doing what they're doing because they love to, right? Otherwise, they're sellouts. And anyway, they should make their money by performing live.