A peer-to-peer company was selling software that enabled file sharing between users on the internet claiming that it could be done as the internet was a free enterprise. MGM and other major production companies felt that the free trade of copyrighted material was illegal and they should be compensated for it. Because it’s on the internet, the company’s “GROKSTER LTD.” and “StreamCast Networks, Inc.” felt they had no legal obligation to upholding copyrighted law as it was a trade between peers on the internet with no legal contracts being held, sort of like if I was give a friend a burned CD of music I purchased, but on a much grander scale. The case was presented on March 29, 2005 and the Decision was given on June 27, 2005. The companies were upheld for copyright infringement.
Cornwell University Law School: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-480.ZO.html
European Digital Rights: http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number3.13/p2p
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