Hollywood Profits v. Technological Progress. POINT OF VIEW by DORON BEN-ATAR.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/1/2005.

Addressing the Grokster case, Ben-Atar says:

When Hollywood cries poverty, as the victim of pilfering teenagers and workers who live on a couple of dollars a day, it is laughable. And the studios’ suit could severely curtail P2P programs’ development in America as a resource combining multiple databases, allowing real-time cooperation on a vast scale in science, business, and education.
A decision in favor of the movie and music studios will neither halt piracy nor stop the development of P2P software.

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