Posted by Morton Davis on 10/10/05 15:30

"Angrie.Woman" <Angrie.Woman@ggmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

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