Tag: GROKSTER

If you go to Grokster.com you're greeted by the familiar old Grokster logo, and something new: "The United States Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that using this service to trade copyrighted material is illegal." The message continues with the slightly disingenuous "There are legal services for downloading music and movies. This service is not one of them," and finally, a ...

Slyck News has put together a list of their picks for the biggest winners and losers in file-sharing for 2005. File sharing's winners? BitTorrent, Apple, LimeWire, The Pirate Bay, and open source. The losers? Sony-BMG, Kazaa owners Sharman Networks, Grokster, pay P2P, and, of course, perennial loser the RIAA. I'd personally add to the winners list Fiona Apple, whose new album, which is being ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that veteran P2P player (and loser of the recent Supreme Court battle with MGM) Grokster is in talks to be acquired by Mashboxx, the "legitimate" P2P network currently in private beta. Grokster, it seems, is hoping to go legitimate itself, and the terms of the deal would require Grokster to settle its current legal disputes with the recording ...