Getting closer to Grokster

The NY Times examines the PR efforts leading up to the oral arguments in Grokster: As Piracy Battle Nears Supreme Court, the Messages Grow Manic: “One side must make people care about obscure technological innovations that they say will be stifled by legislative action or an adverse Supreme Court ruling. The other side battles the image of greedy corporate profiteers and the perception that freely downloading copyrighted works is something other than theft.”
Volokh conspirator David Post makes a prediction for the result in Grokster: “While this outcome could be a disaster for P2P file-sharing technologies (and the record companies will undoubtedly trumpet it as such, with many in the press likely following along), it probably won’t be. The Court has an easy “out” here, and my experience has been that when they’re presented with an easy out they usually grab it.”