The Grokster decision is expected any day now (well, not any day, Mondays are preferred), but the post-decision spin is already beginning. The MPAA's CEO, Dan Glickman, is already making with the "opponents of copyright maximalism are communists" schtick (Glickman Presses 'Protections'):

"Shall we keep in place legal protections that promote the free market, or shall we tear down those protections in such a way as to allow the black market to prosper and dominate?" he asked. "If we have learned anything over the past 50 years with the collapse of communism and the triumph of free-market capitalism, we have learned that abusing private property rights actually leads to less creativity, less technological development and less freedom."

With that in mind, Glickman sought to associate the studios' cause with former president Ronald Reagan, a one-time Hollywood figure who remains highly popular among the Republican leadership that controls the levers of power on Capitol Hill.

"I was a great admirer of Ronald Reagan when he was president, and I was a [Democratic] member of Congress from Kansas," Glickman said. "In fact, I often voted with him, which made the leaders in my own party very unhappy."

Glickman noted that he and Reagan enjoyed careers in both Hollywood and politics.

Snocap is not alone in mugging for the camera as file sharing's day of reckoning approaches. Across the country in Virginia Beach, Va., Wayne Rosso is hoping to announce the first record-label partner and the test-phase launch for his new legitimate file-sharing service, Mashboxx, which is based on the Snocap system. In terms of the publicity he can generate for the news as a result of the Supreme Court ruling, "it's going to be like shooting fish in a barrel," he says.

Mr. Rosso has an added advantage: He is the former chief executive of Grokster Inc., the defendant in the case. "My phone rings off the hook every time a justice sneezes," he says. At those moments, Mr. Rosso leans back in his leather reclining chair, puts his feet up and starts dishing out the juicy quotes journalists came to expect from him while the Grokster case wound its way through the courts.

via GrafoDexia