[Mb-civic] The Grokster Case's Silent Majority

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The Grokster Case's Silent Majority 
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By Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is the editor in chief of Wired magazine and is writing a book on the shift from mass markets to niche markets. His blog is at www.thelongtail .com.

March 30 2005

This week the Supreme Court received an avalanche of friend-of-the-court filings for its hearing of the Grokster case, which pits a peer-to-peer file-trading technology against MGM. Yet the outpouring of concern in the case only hints at the true number of interested parties. 

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