Noted & quoted.

• Position: SOUNDBITES

'There are legal services for downloading music and movies. This service is not one of them.'

--File-swapping software company Grokster, in a farewell message on its Web site, after the Supreme Court ruled the company can be held liable for its users' copyright infringements. [N.Y. Times, Nov. 8]

'Obviously anyone who blows himself up in a wedding hall is not someone who wants the good of his country or the good of any human being.'

--A Jordanian government official, on the recent hotel, suicide bombings that killed more than 57 people. [The Washington Post, Nov...