"The Bush administration agrees with recording and movie companies"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

...which want to use a 1998 law to get information about Internet users, but the administration also had encouraged the Supreme Court to wait to settle the issue.

The recording industry sought court intervention now, arguing that more than 2.6 billion music files are illegally downloaded each month and that the law is needed to identify culprits. The copyright law was written before file-swapping was common, and an appeals court said it could not be used to get information about people who share copyrighted files. "That is crippling the private copyright enforcement that Congress envisioned as a bulwark against Internet lawlessness, and allowing Internet piracy to metastasize," justices were told in a filing by Washington attorney Donald Verrilli, who represents the Recording Industry Association of America.

"Copyright owners cannot fight back unless they know who the infringers are," he said.

(snip)...the court sidestepped a dispute over whether Internet providers can be forced to identify subscribers illegally swapping music and movies online. The subject, however, may be back at the court soon.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/12/scotus.roundup.ap.ap/index.html

Bush_Eats_Beef ANALYSIS:

1). The "Bush administration agrees," but also "had encouraged the Supreme Court to wait to settle the issue"...let's see. Wait until, oh, let's say...November 3, 2004?

2). "The subject, however, may be back at the court soon." As an example, "soon" meaning November 3, 2004?

:grr:

WHAT ELSE is "on hold" until November 3, 2004?