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Posted by Angrie.Woman on 10/10/05 15:36
Morton Davis wrote:
> "Angrie.Woman" <Angrie.Woman@ggmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Rkv2f.417$Xp6.253@newssvr24.news.prodigy.net...
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>>George Hester wrote:
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>>>Who is they? Napster survived for a while and then it got shut down by
>>>Court decree. It was a little harder in the other P2Ps but the RIAA was
>>>succesful in covincing the devs it was in their interest to shut WinMX
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> down.
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>>>No Court decree there.
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>>It was a court decision - that essentially said even if there is a
>>legitimate use for file sharing software, the manufacturers of said
>>software can be held liable if the users do illegal things with it.
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> It's a bad decission. They might as well say Chevy and Jim Beam are
> responsible for the missuse of their products.
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It is a terrible decision. There's bad precedents, like bars who serve
drunks who drive home. Cigarette companies who get sued when smokers get
cancer. So far the gun lobby has staved off most of those lawsuits, as
have the fast food restaurants who serve food to fat people.
But, Canada won't let us in, so what are we gonna do?
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