A CIO Magazine blog entry points out that John Roberts understood Internet technology when he was an attorney and a judge. Whatever the other political angles (and please, no comments about non-technological politics), I like that we have a Chief Justice who believes (and has ruled that) “if someone exposes a file through a peer-to-peer network, that person is not culpable for that file being used illegally”. If only we’d had that philosophy ruling on the Grokster case …
