Judges rule file-sharing software legal

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Judges rule file-sharing software legal

#1 Postby CaptinCrunch » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:54 pm

A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial court decision that says file-sharing software programs such as Grokster or Morpheus are legal.

Following the lead of a lower court decision last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said that peer-to-peer software developers could not be held liable for the copyright infringement of people using their software, as long as they had no direct ability to block the acts.

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http://news.com.com/Judges+rule+file-sharing+software+legal/2100-1032_3-5316570.html
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