Groups Urge Supreme Court to Hear Grokster Case

A broad list of copyright owners, artists, law professors and state attorneys general asked the Supreme Court to hear a controversial case on the legality of file-swapping software. A federal appeals court ruled last August that peer-to-peer software developers, including Morpheus parent StreamCast Networks and rival Grokster, were not liable for the actions of people who used their products to thwart copyright laws.