Underlying the Grokster Supreme Court decision is a fundamental rejection of the notion that the Internet is an ungoverned
" Wild West" environment that cannot be controlled. Under certain defined civilized society has ever accepted the proposition thet technology can flaunt basic underlying social and cultural values. Through all of the industrial and tachnological developments that have taken place, societies have intervened by means of legal and political decisions to ensure that the tech-nology serves socially acceptable ends without stifling the positive consequences of innovation and wealth creation. The Internet in this sense is no different, and we can expect societies around the world to exercise more regulatory control over the