U.S.Court: P2P file-sharing services Morpheus and Grokster are legal

[Jan Meyer <jan@synflood.in-berlin.de>]

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64640,00.html/wn_ascii

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. 
[...]

The decision upholds an April 2003 U.S. District Court decision that these
services should not be held liable for the illegal behavior of their users. The
studios and labels appealed the decision and the appeals court heard oral
arguments on the case in February.
[...]



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