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Posted by FatKat on 10/10/05 21:34
Morton Davis wrote:
> "Angrie.Woman" <Angrie.Woman@ggmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Rkv2f.417$Xp6.253@newssvr24.news.prodigy.net...
> > George Hester wrote:
> > > 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
> down.
> > > No Court decree there.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> It's a bad decission. They might as well say Chevy and Jim Beam are
> responsible for the missuse of their products.
Well, ofcourse they could go the direct-liability route and just sue
all of us...
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