Friday, August 20, 2004

Legal Decision in Realm of P2P File Sharing

The two lead sentences from the summary at Wired.com of the decision rendered yesterday by a federal appeals court is:

"Peer-to-peer file-sharing services Morpheus and Grokster are legal, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The decision is a blow for record labels and movie studios which sued the peer-to-peer operators claiming that the services should be held liable for the copyright infringement of their users.
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