Hey guys

check this shiznit out. makes Napster look like dipshts lol

Court rules in favor of P2P services
Grokster and Streamcast dodge legal bullet
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posted 1:35pm EST Mon Aug 23 2004 - submitted by Brian Osborne
NEWS


Grokster and StreamCast definitely learned a lesson from Napster's past by operating a peer-to-peer service without using centralized servers, and that move has won the two companies a victory in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Unlike Napster, which stored directories of copyrighted materials' locations on centralized servers, the two P2P services merely provided the technology for users to send and receive files directly to and from one another. The court acknowledged this fact and therefore did not find the companies liable for the trading of copyrighted material.

The new ruling was based in part on a lower court's ruling that related the copyright issue to a similar one from the past. In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Sony was not responsible if its Betamax VCR was used illegally to record copyrighted material, nothing that the device had many extremely useful legal uses as well.

Read more from the Associated Press article and Reuters.

Dude, doesn't alow remote linkage. Oh wells. Anycase thoughty 'all should take a peek. Looks like one way or another, P2P is here to stay. Guess all them dudes should stop whining like a lil btch with a skinned knee over messed the ycan't change. I love it when mess like that happens.

BTW, not much of a joiner. Yoou dudes seem like a nice group n sht, but the BrU miester is a solitary type.

n yes I know it sounds retarded to talk of myself in the third person :P