In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that there was sufficient evidence of 'illegal intent' on the part of the makers of Grokster software for thier case to go to trial. (See decision.) The case against them had been thrown out in lower courts on the basis of the 1984 Supreme Court Sony-Betamax decision.

This seems like big news to me, but interestingly it doesn't appear prominently on any of the major news sites I checked (NYTimes, CNN, Google News…). Maybe I'm just fooled into thinking it's a big deal because of the folks I am around. But at the same time, the RIAA lawsuits against filesharers was big news. Hum.

Thanks again to Joe, my resident source for all things IP related, for the tip.