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In a suprisingly rushed ruling by the Supreme Court today, MGM has won its case against Grokster. Thus, from this point on, all software developers will be held vicariously liable for all crimes and torts commited using any software they produced.
Furthermore, a recent bill banning the use of decentralized internet protocols, has been passed. Thus, any software that enables scalability through peer interaction will be illegal to produce and posess. Anyone caught producing or posessing decentralized software will face harsh fines and long jail terms.
In addition, another bill has been passed requiring all electronics hardware manufacturers to install a digital rights managment chip onto all new hardware produced and sold. Any software or other data that goes through the hardware must pass through this chip to ensure that it is not being distributed through the internet, and to ensure that any manditory statistics gathering is performed. The bill calls for a new government department, which has been set up to decide which company will provide this DRM chip. The new department has chosen, ironically, a joint venture firm between the RIAA and MPAA to develop and manufacture the chips.
