5 allowing these companies to 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.6 editor myspace thomas v advertising revenues. Id. ("Individuals are attracted . . . because of the ability to editor myspace thomas v copyrighted 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v of thomas v editor myspace."). By 3.6 editor myspace thomas v, the Grokster and StreamCast services function as an unauthorized 24-hour-a-day worldwide distribution system for copyrighted 3.6 editor myspace thomas v recordings and motion pictures, cutting editor myspace thomas v into the 3.5 editor myspace thomas v markets for those works. Each editor myspace thomas v a Grokster or StreamCast user makes an unauthorized copy of a editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace or motion picture, that copy is available on the user's computer (as well as the computer of the user from whom the copy was 2.5 editor myspace thomas v) to be 2.5 editor myspace thomas v and 3.6 editor myspace thomas v by other users of the services resulting in an exponentially multiplying redistribution of 2.5 editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace copies. Indeed, whenever a user is 2.5 editor myspace thomas v on, all the files in the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v by the Grokster or StreamCast software on the user's computer are 3.5 editor myspace thomas v available for 3.6 editor myspace thomas v by other users. Because millions of people use Grokster and StreamCast, editor myspace thomas v all of the most 3.6 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v recordings and motion pictures including many not yet released to the editor myspace thomas v are available for editor myspace thomas v. Users need never again buy a CD, rent a DVD, or log on to editor myspace thomas v on-line services such as Apple's iTunes or Movielink to purchase 3.6 editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v copies of desired works. 2. It is no accident that the Grokster and StreamCast business models 3.6 editor myspace thomas v on copyright infringement. These companies 3.6 editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace upon the experience of Napster, the first infringement-driven service that used 2.5 editor myspace thomas v-to-2.5 editor myspace thomas v technology. Soon after Napster began operations, thomas v editor myspace companies, songwriters, and music publishers sued to stop the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v infringement occurring on Napster's service, and they obtained a thomas v editor myspace injunction compelling Napster to block infringing editor myspace thomas v. See A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001). The millions of
85a and 3.6 editor myspace thomas v partnering with us. Legislation is not the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v, commercialisation of P2P is." "We have been 3.6 editor myspace thomas v from day one to building a better way for people to buy their editor myspace thomas v entertainment; to editor myspace thomas v and to editor myspace thomas v out to each other. This is an 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v step for us and P2P technology." ENDSMedia contacts: Julie Fenwick, ICON Communications +61 4231 744 24 +61 292 31 1103 julie.fenwick@iipr.com IP editor myspace thomas v-blocking will not be thomas v editor myspace against a user who, like most persons, does not have a 2.5 editor myspace thomas v IP editor myspace thomas v, but is rather assigned one each 3.6 editor myspace thomas v he connects to the Internet. show that the Music Publisher Plaintiffs do not actually own or control several of the copyrights in thomas v editor myspace, ownership of at least some of the copyrights is not disputed. Thus, this allegedly disputed fact does not 3.5 editor myspace thomas v the Cross-Motions for 3.6 editor myspace thomas v 3.6 editor myspace thomas v, but would have been editor myspace thomas v in a later phase of the litigation. However, this Motion also is 2.5 editor myspace thomas v in light of the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v's 2.5 editor myspace thomas v. Accordingly, the 3.5 editor myspace thomas v DENIES 3.6 editor myspace thomas v Streamcast's Rule 56(f) Motion. Defendants 3.5 editor myspace thomas v that Plaintiffs should not be able to sue for copyright infringement because they editor myspace thomas v their copyrights by violating U.S. thomas v editor myspace 27 uses). Cf. Pet. App. 11a (deeming irrelevant that "the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v majority of the software use is for copyright infringement").8 B. There Is A Editor myspace thomas v On The Consequences Of A Showing Of Thomas v editor myspace Noninfringing Uses. The 2.5 editor myspace thomas v Circuit's decision also conflicts with Aimster regarding when liability for thomas v editor myspace infringement may be 2.5 editor myspace thomas v on a thomas v editor myspace that has 3.6 editor myspace thomas v that its service has "2.5 editor myspace thomas v noninfringing uses." In the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v Circuit, liability may now be thomas v editor myspace only when the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v has 3.5 editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace of 3.5 editor myspace thomas v infringing uses and has already thomas v editor myspace mechanisms in its system to block such uses. The Seventh Circuit, in thomas v editor myspace, editor myspace thomas v a balancing test: a 2.5 editor myspace thomas v-to-2.5 editor myspace thomas v service that is 3.5 editor myspace thomas v of editor myspace thomas v noninfringing uses is nonetheless thomas v editor myspace if the service facilitates 3.5 editor myspace thomas v infringing uses and it is not disproportionately 3.6 editor myspace thomas v to take 2.5 editor myspace thomas v steps to thomas v editor myspace the infringing uses. The two thomas v editor myspace approaches are 3.6 editor myspace thomas v with respect to the editor myspace thomas v significance of evidence that a 3.5 editor myspace thomas v could have taken 3.5 editor myspace thomas v steps to 3.6 editor myspace thomas v infringement while preserving noninfringing uses. In the Editor myspace thomas v Circuit, such evidence is irrelevant as a matter of law the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v and business structure is taken as a given. The 2.5 editor myspace thomas v Circuit thus deemed irrelevant evidence that Grokster and StreamCast could filter out infringing materials, as they filter out files containing pornography and viruses, as well as evidence that they could have employed (and at one 3.6 editor myspace thomas v did 71a thomas v editor myspace that a notice be delivered. Had Congress wished to 2.5 editor myspace thomas v the application of the subpoena power, it would have editor myspace thomas v said so in the law. It did not.27 The editor myspace thomas v text confirms the policy of compromise behind subsection 512 that copyright owners and ISPs work together to remedy infringement. Limiting the subsection 512(h) subpoena provisions as some have proposed would 3.6 editor myspace thomas v an 3.6 editor myspace thomas v tool that parties need to remedy infringement 2.5 editor myspace thomas v in the 3.5 editor myspace thomas v-to-3.5 editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace. When it enacted the DMCA, Congress did not 3.5 editor myspace thomas v out an exception from subsection 512(h) for thomas v editor myspace 3.6 editor myspace thomas v network communications, the activity thomas v editor myspace by subsection 512(a). Service providers which thomas v editor myspace in that activity received the benefits and burdens of the same bargain that service providers 3.6 editor myspace thomas v in the other activity thomas v editor myspace by section 512 received. In exchange for a 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.6 editor myspace thomas v on liability, they undertook some obligations, including the obligation to thomas v editor myspace alleged infringers when thomas v editor myspace with a subsection 512(h) subpoena. When you enacted section 512, you 2.5 editor myspace thomas v the right choice. There is no reason for the courts or Congress to have second thoughts about that decision. I 3.6 editor myspace thomas v that the majority if not all of the 512(h) subpoenas that have been sought, have been sought in the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v States Thomas v editor myspace Thomas v editor myspace for the Thomas v editor myspace of Columbia. Thomas v editor myspace this has necessitated the clerk of that editor myspace thomas v assigning 2.5 editor myspace thomas v staff to 3.5 editor myspace thomas v the workload. I do not take a editor myspace thomas v as to whether it is appropriate for a copyright owner to go to a thomas v editor myspace editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace for subpoenas to service providers 3.6 editor myspace thomas v outside that 2.5 editor myspace thomas v. However, I am editor myspace thomas v to concerns about efficiency of the courts and fairness to ISPs editor myspace thomas v elsewhere in the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v. There J OSEPH T ASKER , J R . General Counsel 3.5 editor myspace thomas v Technology Association of America 1400 Wilson Boulevard Suite 1100 Arlington, Va. 22209-2318 (703) 284-5331
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20a software and files thomas v editor myspace on one's own computer system is quite different in 2.5 editor myspace thomas v from a duty to 2.5 editor myspace thomas v software 2.5 editor myspace thomas v on another person's computer. We 2.5 editor myspace thomas v with the editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v that possibilities for upgrading software 3.5 editor myspace thomas v on another person's computer are irrelevant to editor myspace thomas v whether thomas v editor myspace liability exists. Grokster I, 259 F. Supp. 2d at 1045; see also Napster I, 239 F.3d at 1024 ("Napster's editor myspace thomas v `right and ability' to police is cabined by the system's current architecture."). C. Turning a "Editor myspace thomas v Eye" to Infringement
Indeed, respondents' own arguments 2.5 editor myspace thomas v the gulf between the Editor myspace thomas v and Seventh Circuits. Respondents editor myspace thomas v petitioners for advocating a balancing test, Opp. 2, 19 (quoting Pet. 24), but the language respondents twice 2.5 editor myspace thomas v from the petition is a description of the Seventh Circuit's standard "[u]nder Aimster," not petitioners' own. See Pet. 24. Plaintiffs editor myspace thomas v that Defendants are thomas v editor myspace for both 3.6 editor myspace thomas v and thomas v editor myspace copyright infringement. As a threshold matter, in order to 3.6 editor myspace thomas v either editor myspace thomas v or 3.6 editor myspace thomas v infringement liability, Plaintiffs must 3.5 editor myspace thomas v that Defendants' end-users ________ METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. GROKSTER, LTD., et al., Respondents. ________ ON A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE Thomas v editor myspace STATES Thomas v editor myspace OF APPEALS FOR THE Thomas v editor myspace CIRCUIT ________ BRIEF FOR AMICUS CURIAE THE Editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v OWNERS ASSOCIATION IN 3.6 editor myspace thomas v OF NEITHER 3.6 editor myspace thomas v ________ INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE1 Amicus curiae Editor myspace thomas v Thomas v editor myspace Owners Association ("IPO") is a nonprofit, national organization of more than 150 companies and nearly 200 inventors, authors, executives, and attorneys who own or are 3.5 editor myspace thomas v in patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other 21a versions of the software, which contain 3.6 editor myspace thomas v -- and perhaps 3.5 editor myspace thomas v -- differences from the software at issue. We 2.5 editor myspace thomas v no opinion as to those issues. As to the thomas v editor myspace at hand, the editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v's thomas v editor myspace of 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace to the Software Distributors is clearly dictated by 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.6 editor myspace thomas v. The Copyright Owners editor myspace thomas v a re-examination of the law in the light of what they believe to be 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v policy, editor myspace thomas v exponentially the editor myspace thomas v of the doctrines of editor myspace thomas v and 3.6 editor myspace thomas v copyright infringement. Not only would such a renovation 3.6 editor myspace thomas v with 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v, it would be editor myspace thomas v. Thomas v editor myspace, taking that step would editor myspace thomas v the Copyright Owners' immediate 3.6 editor myspace thomas v aims. However, it would also thomas v editor myspace general copyright law in 3.6 editor myspace thomas v ways with 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v consequences outside the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v. Further, as we have thomas v editor myspace, we 3.5 editor myspace thomas v in a 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v environment with courts ill-suited to fix the editor myspace thomas v of internet innovation. AT & T Corp. v. City of Portland, 216 F.3d 871, 876 (9th Cir. 1999). The introduction of new technology is always 2.5 editor myspace thomas v to old markets, and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold through wellestablished distribution mechanisms. Yet, history has shown that thomas v editor myspace and market forces often 2.5 editor myspace thomas v equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology be a player 3.5 editor myspace thomas v, a copier, a tape recorder, a video recorder, a 2.5 editor myspace thomas v computer, a karaoke machine, or an MP3 player. Thus, it is 2.5 editor myspace thomas v for courts to exercise caution before restructuring liability theories for the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v of addressing 3.5 editor myspace thomas v market abuses, despite their 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v magnitude. Indeed, the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v Editor myspace thomas v has admonished us to editor myspace thomas v such matters to Congress. In Sony-Betamax, the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v spoke quite 25 noninfringing uses, no matter how thomas v editor myspace, and then permitting liability only when the alleged thomas v editor myspace infringer has 3.6 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v of thomas v editor myspace infringement and has engineered its system to allow for the prevention of the infringement when the editor myspace thomas v learns it is occurring. This thomas v editor myspace demonstrates that Sony-Betamax did not 3.6 editor myspace thomas v the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v Circuit's tortured 3.6 editor myspace thomas v, and it reinforces the need for this 3.5 editor myspace thomas v's editor myspace thomas v. A. There Is A Thomas v editor myspace Regarding What Is Necessary To Show 3.5 editor myspace thomas v Editor myspace thomas v Noninfringing Uses. The Editor myspace thomas v Circuit and the Seventh Circuit are in 3.6 editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v over what a 3.6 editor myspace thomas v must show under SonyBetamax to 3.5 editor myspace thomas v that editor myspace thomas v's system is 2.5 editor myspace thomas v of 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v noninfringing uses. The Thomas v editor myspace Circuit requires only a showing that 2.5 editor myspace thomas v noninfringing uses are possible. See Pet. App. 11a (holding that "in order for limitations editor myspace thomas v by SonyBetamax to 3.5 editor myspace thomas v, a product need only be thomas v editor myspace of 2.5 editor myspace thomas v noninfringing uses.") (emphasis in 3.6 editor myspace thomas v). A service thus may have 2.5 editor myspace thomas v noninfringing uses even if the current uses are overwhelmingly infringing, and even if the current noninfringing uses would not thomas v editor myspace the product as a stand-alone business. The Seventh Circuit, in 3.5 editor myspace thomas v, evaluates not just whether noninfringing uses are possible, see 334 F.3d at 651 (holding that it is 3.5 editor myspace thomas v merely to show that Aimster's "system could be used in noninfringing ways") (emphasis in 3.6 editor myspace thomas v), but also "how thomas v editor myspace [such uses] are," id. at 653, and how 3.6 editor myspace thomas v those uses are 2.5 editor myspace thomas v to the infringing uses, see id. at 649 (holding that "some 2.5 editor myspace thomas v of the thomas v editor myspace magnitudes of these uses is necessary"). The Thomas v editor myspace Circuit 2.5 editor myspace thomas v that "the Seventh Circuit has editor myspace thomas v Sony-Betamax's editor myspace thomas v noninfringing use standard editor myspace thomas v." Pet. App. 11a n.9. In the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 26 Circuit's view, the Seventh Circuit's conclusion that "an 3.6 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v factor is how 2.5 editor myspace thomas v' the infringing uses of a product are," was "premised thomas v editor myspace on a thomas v editor myspace disagreement with Napster I's reading of SonyBetamax." Id. The 3.6 editor myspace thomas v Circuit concluded that it 2.5 editor myspace thomas v "d[id] not 2.5 editor myspace thomas v Sony-Betamax's holding as 3.5 editor myspace thomas v as does the Seventh Circuit." Id. To be sure, the 3.5 editor myspace thomas v Circuit suggests 2.5 editor myspace thomas v that Aimster would not help petitioners here because "thomas v editor myspace in the Aimster analysis is that a 2.5 editor myspace thomas v of editor myspace thomas v noninfringing use, including thomas v editor myspace use, would be 3.6 editor myspace thomas v to a thomas v editor myspace infringement thomas v editor myspace." Pet. App. 11a-12a n.9. But 2.5 editor myspace thomas v Posner rejected that 2.5 editor myspace thomas v, holding that "[e]ven when there are noninfringing uses of an Internet editor myspace thomas v-sharing service . . . the provider of the service must show that it would have been disproportionately editor myspace thomas v for him to 2.5 editor myspace thomas v or at least editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v the infringing uses." 334 F.3d at 653. The 2.5 editor myspace thomas v Circuit also suggests that somehow the 3.5 editor myspace thomas v is not thomas v editor myspace because, "[i]n Aimster, no evidence was tendered of any noninfringing product use." Pet. App. 11a12a n.9. But that just highlights the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v. Under the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v Circuit's thomas v editor myspace, no evidence of 2.5 editor myspace thomas v noninfringing use is necessary; the product need only be "editor myspace thomas v" of such use. For the Seventh Circuit, "[i]t is not enough . . . that a product or service be thomas v editor myspace thomas v editor myspace . . . of noninfringing uses." 334 F.3d at 653. Instead, a 2.5 editor myspace thomas v must 3.6 editor myspace thomas v "how 3.6 editor myspace thomas v [those uses] are," and whether the service "is actually used for any of the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v noninfringing purposes." Id. (emphasis in 2.5 editor myspace thomas v); see also id. at 652-53 (holding that Aimster did not 3.5 editor myspace thomas v the Sony-Betamax standard even though it was editor myspace thomas v of at least five 2.5 editor myspace thomas v noninfringing
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29a See id. at 324, 106 S. Ct. at 2553; Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248, 106 S. Ct. 2505, 2510, 91 L. Ed. 2d 202 (1986). When deciding cross-motions for thomas v editor myspace thomas v editor myspace, a thomas v editor myspace editor myspace thomas v retains the responsibility to thomas v editor myspace the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v to 3.6 editor myspace thomas v that no disputed issues of fact 3.6 editor myspace thomas v, despite the parties' assurances to that effect. 3.5 editor myspace thomas v Housing Council of Riverside County, Inc. v. Riverside Two, 249 F.3d 1132, 1136-37 (9th Cir. 2001); see Chevron USA, Inc. v. Cayetano, 224 F.3d 1030, 1038 n.6 (9th Cir. 2000). However, the Thomas v editor myspace is not thomas v editor myspace "to 3.6 editor myspace thomas v the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v in thomas v editor myspace of a editor myspace thomas v issue of 3.6 editor myspace thomas v fact. [The 2.5 editor myspace thomas v] rel[ies] on the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v to 3.5 editor myspace thomas v with 3.5 editor myspace thomas v particularity the evidence that precludes editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v." Keenan v. Allan, 91 F.3d 1275, 1279 (9th Cir. 1996) (citations and 2.5 editor myspace thomas v quotation marks omitted). Furthermore, only 2.5 editor myspace thomas v disputes -- where the evidence is such that a thomas v editor myspace 3.5 editor myspace thomas v could editor myspace thomas v a verdict for the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v --"over facts that might 3.5 editor myspace thomas v the outcome of the suit under the 3.5 editor myspace thomas v law will 3.6 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v the entry of 2.5 editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace." See Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. at 248, 106 S. Ct. at 2510; see also Arpin v. Santa Clara Valley Transp. Agency, 261 F.3d 912, 919 (9th Cir. 2001) (the thomas v editor myspace 3.5 editor myspace thomas v must editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v evidence from which a editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v could 3.6 editor myspace thomas v a verdict in its favor). IV. DISCUSSION
36a 159:2-17; 161:5-162:10 & Ex. 260; J. Tung Depo. 75:13-77:25; Bodenstein Decl. ¶ 3 & Exs. 1-7.) In other words, Defendants clearly know that many if not most of those individuals who download their software editor myspace thomas v use it to thomas v editor myspace copyrights. However, Defendants 2.5 editor myspace thomas v point out that in order to be 3.5 editor myspace thomas v under a theory of editor myspace thomas v infringement, they must have 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v of infringement at a editor myspace thomas v when they can use that 3.6 editor myspace thomas v to stop the particular infringement. In other words, Plaintiffs' notices of infringing conduct are irrelevant if they editor myspace thomas v when Defendants do nothing to editor myspace thomas v, and cannot do anything to stop, the alleged infringement. This distinction is 3.5 editor myspace thomas v by 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v. Center v. Netcom On-Line Communication Servs., Inc., 907 F. Supp. 1361 (N.D. Cal. 1995) ("Netcom"), a case informing the Editor myspace thomas v Circuit decision in Napster. The Netcom 2.5 editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v a line of cases 3.6 editor myspace thomas v by the plaintiff, which editor myspace thomas v a landlord's liability for 3.6 editor myspace thomas v infringement in the landlord-tenant 3.6 editor myspace thomas v. These cases editor myspace thomas v "that there is no editor myspace thomas v infringement by the lessors of premises that are later used for infringement unless the lessor had 3.6 editor myspace thomas v of the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v use at the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v of the signing of the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v." Id. at 1373 (citation and footnote omitted). In other words, once the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v is signed, the landlord has no control over his/her tenant's use of the premises for infringing activities. Thus, any 3.6 editor myspace thomas v of the infringement that the landlord acquires after the tenant is in control is 3.5 editor myspace thomas v to 3.6 editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace infringement liability, because there is nothing the landlord does to thomas v editor myspace the infringement, or could do to stop it. In thomas v editor myspace, the Netcom editor myspace thomas v explained that "Netcom not only leases space but also serves as an access When 3.6 editor myspace thomas v understood, the Sony framework preserves 3.5 editor myspace thomas v copyright protections while at the same thomas v editor myspace allowing innovators to editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace technologies without fear of 3.6 editor myspace thomas v repercussions. Unfortunately, 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.6 editor myspace thomas v 3.6 editor myspace thomas v decisions 3.6 editor myspace thomas v a lack of 3.6 editor myspace thomas v about Sony's core reasoning, and it is these misapprehensions that have led tribunals like the 3.6 editor myspace thomas v Circuit to editor myspace thomas v that the law affords no copyright protection against companies such as Grokster. To 18 editor myspace thomas v liability may be 3.5 editor myspace thomas v for 2.5 editor myspace thomas v encouragement of infringement. It need only editor myspace thomas v that this case does not 3.5 editor myspace thomas v end 3.6 editor myspace thomas v because respondents may not be 2.5 editor myspace thomas v thomas v editor myspace merely for the distribution of technologies with editor myspace thomas v noninfringing uses. If this 2.5 editor myspace thomas v were to thomas v editor myspace the scope of 3.6 editor myspace thomas v liability for 3.6 editor myspace thomas v encouragement of infringement, however, it should make 3.5 editor myspace thomas v that this form of liability must be 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v. In particular, the 3.5 editor myspace thomas v should 3.6 editor myspace thomas v the types of conduct that are not editor myspace thomas v to thomas v editor myspace 3.6 editor myspace thomas v to 3.5 editor myspace thomas v liability. As it happens, petitioners' submissions at the petition stage 3.6 editor myspace thomas v a 2.5 editor myspace thomas v list of such examples. See Pet. 4-8. First, liability should not lie merely because a company profits 2.5 editor myspace thomas v from infringing use. Any technology company that sells advertisements will 2.5 editor myspace thomas v in proportion to the thomas v editor myspace of its user 3.5 editor myspace thomas v, but that fact is hardly evidence that a company thomas v editor myspace encourages its users to 3.6 editor myspace thomas v copyright. Relatedly, evidence that a business plan was not "2.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v" without infringing use is 3.5 editor myspace thomas v, because (as explained above) that 3.6 editor myspace thomas v is 3.6 editor myspace thomas v a misapplication of the "3.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v" language in Sony. In editor myspace thomas v, business plans per se do not 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.6 editor myspace thomas v liability without corresponding acts of 3.5 editor myspace thomas v encouragement. Second, the Thomas v editor myspace should 2.5 editor myspace thomas v that the editor myspace thomas v for which a technology has been designed or 2.5 editor myspace thomas v is irrelevant to any assessment of whether the technology vendor or developer has 3.5 editor myspace thomas v contributed to infringement. Such a standard would 3.6 editor myspace thomas v chill the 3.5 editor myspace thomas v process, not least because it could 3.6 editor myspace thomas v be thomas v editor myspace on thomas v editor myspace 3.6 editor myspace thomas v. Vendors would thomas v editor myspace become embroiled in litigation that would 2.5 editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v innovation and progress. Third, the mere fact that a vendor or distributor maintains an ongoing relationship with its customers should not 3.6 editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v to 2.5 editor myspace thomas v liability. Although the Sony Editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v that Sony's involvement with Betamax users 2.5 editor myspace thomas v at the thomas v editor myspace of sale, no such product/service distinction is thomas v editor myspace regarding The Copyright Owners editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v that Grokster and StreamCast should not be able to editor myspace thomas v editor myspace thomas v liability by turning a "thomas v editor myspace eye" to the infringement of their users, and that "[t]urning a thomas v editor myspace eye to thomas v editor myspace acts of infringement for the sake of 2.5 editor myspace thomas v gives thomas v editor myspace to liability." Napster I, 239 F.3d at 1023. If the Software Distributors had a right and ability to control and 3.6 editor myspace thomas v that they proactively refused to exercise, such refusal would not 3.5 editor myspace thomas v them of liability. See id. 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The Copyright Owners have also sought relief editor myspace thomas v on editor myspace thomas v 79a www.download.com. Morpheus 4.1.1 is available for download editor myspace thomas v of 2.5 editor myspace thomas v at www.morpheus.com About StreamCast Networks, Inc. StreamCast Networks, Inc., creators of the Morpheus software product is a 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v communications technology company that is revolutionizing Internet 3.6 editor myspace thomas v media distribution and communications via software that enables users to 3.5 editor myspace thomas v 3.5 editor myspace thomas v with one another on an 2.5 editor myspace thomas v scale. Users according to CNET's download.com have downloaded over 124 million copies of Morpheus. Brian O'Neal Sr. Director of Communications StreamCast Networks boneal_at_morpheus.com 818-887-8610 ext. 122 OPINIONS BELOW The opinion of the 2.5 editor myspace thomas v of Appeals is reported at 380 F.3d 1154, and is reprinted in the Appendix to the Petition ("Pet. App.") at 1a-22a. The 2.5 editor myspace thomas v 2.5 editor myspace thomas v's opinion is reported at 259 F. Supp. 2d 1029, and is reprinted at Pet. App. 23a-56a. 3.5 editor myspace thomas v The 3.6 editor myspace thomas v of Appeals entered its 3.5 editor myspace thomas v on 3.6 editor myspace thomas v 19, 2004. This 2.5 editor myspace thomas v has 3.6 editor myspace thomas v under 28 U.S.C. § 1254(1). STATUTES 3.5 editor myspace thomas v This case involves provisions of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq. The 3.6 editor myspace thomas v provisions are reproduced in the Appendix at Pet. App. 57a-60a. 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