Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Eoc Week7

MGM v. Grokster,
Argued 3/29/2005, Decided 6/27/2005
Grokster is a free software that you can download off of the web, it allows people to “share” digital files between computers. MGM sued Grokster for copyright infringement because the users of the software were using it to infringe on the Copyright Act and MGM was accusing that Grokster intentionally developed the software for that purpose . The software was allowing billions of files each month to be shared between peer to peer networks.

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