August 20, 2004

Fans of file-sharing have been handed a significant victory by a US court. US Appeals Court ruling goes against the RIAA and MPAA, saying P2P software makers are not responsible for the data transferred over their networks.
posted by mecurious 20 years ago
  • eMule doesn't steal songs from people..I DO! *click, bang*
  • If you got a spare hour or so it's interesting to listen to the arguments in the case. BoingBoing has a link: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/19/eff_wins_grokster_so.html
  • Help me out here, ever since I moved to dialup I've been out of the p2p loop. Does grokster still use Kazaa as it's backbone? If so, then isn't this really a win for freedom ... and for spammers too?