They are selectively misquoting something that a judge wrote in A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster:

 Originally Posted By: Judge Beezer
The MP3's compressed format allows for rapid transmission of digital audio files from one computer to another by electronic mail or any other file transfer protocol.

It's a pretty nasty misquote, changing a consequence of a characteristic to a definition.
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Bitt Faulk