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No matter what the Supreme Court decides about Grokster’s 15 minutes of fame, this is a philosophical issue for the long run. The Web isn’t just a technology; it’s become an ideology. The Web’s birth as a „free” medium and the downloading ethic have engendered the belief that culture–songs, movies, fiction, journalism, photography–should be clickable into the public domain, for „everyone.”

What a weird ethic. Some who will spend hundreds of dollars for iPods and home theater systems won’t pay one thin dime for a song or movie. So Steve Jobs and the Silicon Valley geeks get richer while the new-music artists sweating through three sets in dim clubs get to live on Red Bull. Where’s the justice in that?