Indications from the hearing were mixed. The Justices seemed to support the Sony Betamax doctrine. However they may provide a way to attack companies that facilitate "active inducement" of copyright infringement and send the case back to the lower court. This would delay any final decision another 1-2 years, by which time the P2P industry and players could be very different.

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Marc Freedman
RazorPop, developer of TrustyFiles, the leading multiple network P2P file sharing software
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