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How the MGM/Grokster case will affect free software

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Mad Penguin; By Christian Einfeldt 		Mail this story
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This week will see oral arguments in the US Supreme Court in the case of MGM versus Grokster, a case of titanic dimensions for the rip, mix and burn culture. At issue in the case is whether a product manufacturer can be held liable for copyright infringements by downstream users.

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Armand ·
BitTorrent traffic account for about a third of the traffic on the internet today... Could BitTorrent be considered "mal-ware" ?
hkwint ·
Nasa uses BitTorrent. ( http://www.emerce.com/nieuws.jsp?id=494011 sorry, in Dutch). According to the article, it saves the US tax payer money (because no big downloadservers are needed anymore).

What I wonder is, if 'innovating' companies could be sued, then: -Could companies like Nero / Microsoft be held responsible for use of their software to illegal copy cd's / dvd's? -Are they going to sue Philips / Sony, because of the invention of the legal CD's? Because a legal CD can be used to make an illegal copy. -And findally, are they going to sue themselves, for making movies that could be copied illegal?

This is just rediculous!

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