Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in the Grokster case – attendance apparently looked more like a sleep over waiting for concert tickets.

Camping out at the Supreme Court

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring05/cos491/writing/index.php?p=242

Wired Magazine’s Perspective

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67060,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5

NY Times caught a great quote from Justice Ginsburg

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/technology/30bizcourtcnd.html
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg objected, noting that the 1984 decision "goes on for 13 more pages" after articulating the test that provided Sony's defense. "If the standard was that clear, the court would have stopped there," Justice Ginsburg continued. "I don't think you can take one sentence from a rather long opinion and say 'Ah-ha, we have a clear rule.' "

SCOTUSblog

http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2005/03/court_conflicte.html

Several members of the Court -- but especially Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen G. Breyer and David H. Souter -- seemed troubled about the potential impact of a tightening of copyright law on small inventors -- "the guy in the garage," as Souter put it.

I’m glad to see the Justices have a grasp and care about the smaller companies that simply don’t have the bandwidth that companies like Microsoft, IBM, Sun etc. have.

Tim Armstrong’s has a great first hand review of the arguments

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tka/2005/03/29#a53

Here’s the AP News  Report

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050329/D894OTE80.html

Why is it that in year 2005 I cant simply go to the Supreme Court website and download a audio of today’s arguments?