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Hooray for the courts! - TyrionXavier - 08-20-2004

Just when I thought the US Justice System was fundamentally flawed...:


This appeal presents the question of whether distributors of peer-to-peer file-sharing computer networking software may be held contributorily or vicariously liable for copyright infringements by users. Under the circumstances presented by this case, we conclude that the defendants are not liable for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement and affirm the district court’s partial grant of summary judgment.

http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/2...er_decision.pdf

In a nutshell:

The difference between Napster and Grokster, as explained in the Judge's opinion, is that Napster had a centralised index and were therefore in a "supervisory" role with the ability to prevent copyright infringement on a per-file basis. There is no centralised index for Grokster and the authors of the software do not therefore have a supervisory role. The software developers are unable to prevent individual acts of copyright infringement and therefore they do not have a duty to do so.

WOOT!

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Hooray for the courts! - Suicide Jim - 08-21-2004

does that mean win mx is home free too>

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Hooray for the courts! - Velvet - 08-21-2004

Its about time someone saw sense in this .

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Hooray for the courts! - CodeWarrior - 08-21-2004

How about Limewire and Ares?

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