The Post-Grokster Era Begins - Forbes.com
HP strategic bizdev exec Adam Petruszka (hardly the profile of a musician-bankrupting, Big Content-bashing hippie) succinctly puts the cost of Grokster thusly:
If a ruling came down that said that the standard set in the Betamax case isn't good enough and imposed a lot of new legal tests that a device would have to meet in order to not be infringing, that would add a lot of friction and cost to the development process.
