Senate committee looks at P2P ruling

THE US Senate is going to look at the implications of the recent Court's recent ruling in the case of MGM v. Grokster.

Today, the full Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation will hold a hearing on the potential effects of the ruling to impede technological investment and innovation. The robed, but not wigged, ones at America's highest court have decided that P2P companies can be sued if their software is used to pirate software.

If you have nothing better to do, the hearing, which starts at two o'clock in the afternoon, Washington DC time, can be seen here. You might see and hear P2P United [www.p2punited.org] give its evidence. The outfit represents the developers of Grokster, Morpheus and several other leading peer to peer file-sharing software programs. It will claim that the move will kill off IT "innovation". µ