U.S. Government Supports RIAA in P2P Supreme Court Case

The Bush administration's top lawyer and the Christian Coalition threw their weight behind the entertainment industry in a closely watched Supreme Court fight over file swapping. "While P2P technology unquestionably can be employed for a variety of legitimate purposes without giving rise to rampant copyright infringement, the record... suggests that (the file-swapping software companies) have built their particular P2P networks around the 'draw' of massive copyright infringement," the Solicitor General's brief read.