BMG Music v. Gonzalez

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Last June the Supreme Court held in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., - U.S.-, 125 S.Ct. 2764, 162 L.Ed.2d 781 (2005), that a distributed file-sharing system is engaged in contributory copyright infringement when its principal object is the dissemination of copyrighted material. The foundation of this holding is a belief that people who post or download music files are primary infringers. In re Aimster Copyright Litigation, 334 F.3d 643, 645 (7th Cir.2003), which anticipated Grok-ster, made the same assumption. In this appeal Cecilia Gonzalez, who downloaded…