Fileswapping tools legal
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 25, 2003 at 9:32:34 PM
A major blow to copywrite nutcases and their DMCA. Filesharing tools are legal, and are compared to VCRs and the like. Finally, some sense.
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"Defendants distribute and support software, the users of which can and do choose to employ it for both lawful and unlawful ends," Wilson wrote in his opinion, released Friday. "Grokster and StreamCast are not significantly different from companies that sell home video recorders or copy machines, both of which can be and are used to infringe copyrights."