US court: Software can&#39;t commit piracy
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Truly decentralised peer-to-peer (P2P) software can&#39;t be held accountable for its misuse, according to a US federal appeals court.
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Description: A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that companies that provide software that runs two Internet-based file-sharing networks are not liable for copyright infringement by people who use the networks to share music and movies.
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An emergency motion was filed Friday the 13th of August in US District Court of Eastern Michigan, Compuware said that IBM failed to provide essential evidence, which includes several pieces of disputed software source code, until after the case&#39;s ...
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AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19 - Affirming a lower court decision, a federal appellate court ruled Thursday that the distributors of software used by millions of people to exchange music files over the Internet cannot be held liable for aiding ...
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A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered a stinging blow to the anti-piracy efforts of major movie studios and music companies, ruling that several major online file-sharing software companies are not liable for copyright infringement.
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Court Rules File Sharing Legal  A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial decision which ruled that file sharing software such as Kazaa, Morpheus or Grokster are indeed legal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles ruled on Thursday that peer-to-peer software developers were not liable for any ...
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A US court has upheld the legitimacy of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing application Morpheus, finding against 28 of the world&#39;s largest entertainment companies which had alleged that the P2P firm&#39;s software violates copyright law.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday  agreed to consider whether Internet file-trading networks  should be held responsible when their users copy music, movies  and other protected works without permission.
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As an Australian court considers whether Kazaa&#39;s parent company should be forced to pay damages for the file sharing that goes on over its peer-to-peer (P2P) network, questions persist about
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments March 29th on whether companies that provide peer-to-peer software violate copyright laws if their users commit copyright infringement.
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Visitors with a pirated copy of Windows may lose easy access to company&#39;s Download Center. As part of its efforts to combat software piracy, Microsoft is testing a new feature on its Download Center Web site that can lock out pirated copies of Windows.
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com. In the latest battle in the file-sharing war, the movie and music industries have petitioned the US Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court decision that gave the green light to software firms to trade copyrighted material.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered a stinging blow to the anti-piracy efforts of major movie studios and music companies by ruling several Internet file-sharing software companies are not liable for copyright infringement.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered a stinging blow to the anti-piracy efforts of major movie studios and music companies, ruling that several online file-sharing software companies are not liable for copyright infringement.
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A federal appeals court offered sweet music for online file sharers and dealt a bitter defeat to the entertainment industry Thursday, ruling that two companies that make popular file-sharing programs aren&#39;t responsible for copyright violations by people ...
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The US movie industry has launched legal action to sue people who facilitate illegal film downloading. The Motion Picture Association of America wants to stop people using the program BitTorrent to swap movies.
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"Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that U.S. law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions."  Which of course applies only to US companies.  Kazaa should be free and clear.  ...  Should have supplied a link.  I'm a BAD blogger!