An eminently readable and informative history of the upcoming Supreme Court hearing is running at The 463, a blog about technology public policy. The SCOTUS seeks to overturn an earlier 9th Circuit court case that was itslef an appeal of an earlier victory for P2P companies. All of this traces back to the 1984 "Betamax decision," a Supreme Court ruling that legitimized VCRs. All of this is put into narrative perspective here.
