IP prof Matt Rosen thinks about the impact on Grokster issues of Justice O'Connor's retirement, at TechCentralStation.

The 9-0 decision masked fundamental disagreements, expressed in two concurring opinions, about the application of the holding in Sony to the treacherous realm of file-sharing. In many respects, then, Grokster was an elegant dodge of issues that are now all but guaranteed to resurface before the Court in the coming years -- a Court that, we now know, will be without Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her support for one particular interpretation of Sony.

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