Hollywood Reporter Covers History of Politics vs. Entertainment

From Cinemocracy:

In “Fast Forward,” Boliek examines the two seminal Supreme Court cases that concern new technology and the threat of copyright infringement. The first, of course, is the Betamax case of the early 1980s, Sony v. Universal, in which Jack Valenti famously compared the VCR to the Boston Strangler. Boliek discusses the internal deliberations of the Court, which was evenly split until Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the only judge sitting on the fence, found herself hesitant to ban a device “capable of substantial noninfringing uses.” The second case discussed is the impending MGM v. Grokster, sent from the 9th Circuit to the Supreme Court this very term, argued in March and to be decided any day now.