DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law Volume 16 Issue 1 Fall 2005 Article 3 Lifting the Supreme Court's Thumb Off of the Scale: Promoting Technological and Entrepreneurial Innovation, While Protecting the Interests of Copyright Holders After MGM v. Grokster Shane Nix Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/jatip Recommended Citation Shane Nix, Lifting the Supreme Court's Thumb Off of the Scale: Promoting Technological and Entrepreneurial Innovation, While Protecting the Interests of Copyright Holders After MGM v. Grokster, 16 DePaul J. Art, Tech. & Intell. Prop. L. 49 (2005) Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/jatip/vol16/iss1/3 This Case Notes and Comments is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Law at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Nix: Lifting the Supreme Court's Thumb Off of the Scale: Promoting Tec CASE NOTES AND COMMENTS LIFTING THE SUPREME COURT'S THUMB OFF OF THE SCALE: PROMOTING TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATION, WHILE PROTECTING THE INTERESTS OF COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AFTER MGM V. GROKSTER I. INTRODUCTION "Technology. brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."1 Over the years, society has become accustomed to numerous inventions that are used in daily life. Many of which have been brought by the proliferation in computer technology over the last twenty years.2 Technology gets better all the time, thus raising policy concerns about the purposes for which it is used.' Some inventions make it easier to infringe upon copyrights, which could hinder society from benefiting from artistic creations over the 1.