Grokster.com has been  forced to shut down following court determinations that its peer to peer (P2P) file sharing service constituted an illegal infringement of copyright law.

Given the often lax treatment of copyright in the music area, this alone represents a victory. 

There is, however, a greater victory in this story.  The front page at Grokster.com currently reads: "The United States Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that using this service to trade copyrighted material is illegal" and "There are legal services for downloading music and movies.  This service is not one of them."  Not only has a popular source of illegal copyright infringement been shut down, but the provider has openly admitted to wrongdoing.

It is likely that this confession of guilt comes by order of the court or as part of a settlement agreement between Grokster and the copyright holders whose rights the Grokster site helped to infringe.  Nonetheless, the willingness to admit guilt (wrong, sin) when confronted with wrongdoing furthers Biblical principles (despite Grokster's defense to the original charges, which sounded more like the excuses of Saul than the humility of David).