The IPKat has just found this rather good article by Drew Clark in the Washington Post on the commercial and cultural issues that run as an undercurrent to the legal submissions that have been made to the US Supreme Court in its recent Grokster hearing. It's refreshing to read anything that's relatively even-handed in its appraisal,in an era in which we live on a high-fibre diet of press statements by lobbyists and special interest groups.
TINSELTOWN v TECHVILLE
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