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As usual, America’ s supreme court ended its annual term this week by delivering a clutch of controversial decisions. The one that caught the attention of businessmen, and plenty of music lovers, was a ruling concerning the rampant downloading of free music from the internet.
Nine elderly judges might have been forgiven for finding the entire subject somewhat baffling. In fact, their lengthy written decisions on the case betray an intense interest, as well as a great deal of knowledge. Moreover, they struck what looks like the best available balance under current laws between the claims of media firms, which are battling massive infringements of their copyrights, and tech firms, which are keen to keep the doors to innovation wide open.
This case is only the latest episode in a long-running battle between media and technology companies. In 1984, in a case involving Sony’ s Betamax video recorder, the Supreme Court ruled that techno
A. hand out.
B. demonstrate.
C. disclose.
D. ward off.
Text 4 The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician - assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician - assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect," a centuries - old moral principle holding that an action having two effects - a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen - is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation lo control their pain if th
A. Bold.
B. Harmful.
C. Careless.
D. Desperate.
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