View this article at: http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/06/27/p2p.ruling.to.help.apple/ Monday, Jun 27, 2005 11:30am Supreme Court rules against P2P, Apple to benefit? The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of studios and record labels, saying that peer-to-peer software companies should be liable for the copyright infringement of people using their products, according to CNET News.com: "We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement," wrote Justice David Souter in the majority opinion. Earlier today, analyst firm Piper Jaffray said that Apple's iTunes "would be the primary beneficiary" of such a decision.