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I'm late to the party -- day gig work and all, so there's not much I can add to this rather momentous case that other people haven't already said time and time again. So, instead, I think I'll just do a link farm on what some other people have said.
The EFF
Cory @ Boing Boing
Rebecca @ Conspiracy of Sound
Katie Dean @ Wired
Jason Schultz @ Copyfight
Donna Wentworth @ Copyfight
Brad Hill @ Digital Music
P2P United @ Digital Music
Ed Felten @ Freedom To Tinker
Actually, I started to do this, but I realized pretty quickly that Ernest Miller is all over this. Go there for all the links you could ever want.
Now, having said that I wasn't going to add anything to this, I'm not going to add something to this. Basically, this is a huge win for file trading. The impact to the music industry will probably be positive, but it can't be seen for now.
The best possible analogy I can draw is the Betamax case back in the 80s. The technology was ruled legal, and a thousand flowers bloomed as both new inventions expanded the horizons (and markets) of the film industry, created whole new industries (video rental is the obvious one; the less obvious ones are the entire Direct-To-Video industry, the ancillary spill over into data storage once the DVD proved popular with consumers, etc.) and basically grew the pie for everyone involved.
I rather suspect that will be the end result of this decision here. Well, it will after it goes through the Supremes. We don't know how it will affect the music industry, but I think that it will cause the pie to grow, and give out more opportunities.
Posted by Casper at August 20, 2004 04:01 AM