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Occhio · 18-07-2004, 14:38

Are file sharing networks legal?
By Mike Darrah
Published April 25, 2003 @ 04:20 PM

Streamcast and Grokster have won a major court decision in Los Angeles, shifting the tides of the on-line P2P legal war. Federal court Judge Stephen Wilson has dismissed much of the studios' claims in their lawsuits against them, stating that Morpheus and Grokster were not liable for copyright infringements that took place using their software.
The ruling stated loud and clear that innovating decentralized peer-to-peer Gnutella-like software is perfectly legal, and shouldn't be deemed illegal in the courts. The courts compared the technology with the innovation of the original Sony videocasette recorder (VCR).

Aren't MP3s illegal?
MP3 is simply an audio format and as such has no legal standing. While rights owners have concerns about a format that is used to make digital copies of music, it's not the MP3 format itself that is at issue but rather the copying of music.

quindi?

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Occhio Senior Member Iscritto dal: Dec 1999 Città: Brescia Messaggi: 1919	sempe a riguardo di quel sito citato Are file sharing networks legal? By Mike Darrah Published April 25, 2003 @ 04:20 PM Streamcast and Grokster have won a major court decision in Los Angeles, shifting the tides of the on-line P2P legal war. Federal court Judge Stephen Wilson has dismissed much of the studios' claims in their lawsuits against them, stating that Morpheus and Grokster were not liable for copyright infringements that took place using their software. The ruling stated loud and clear that innovating decentralized peer-to-peer Gnutella-like software is perfectly legal, and shouldn't be deemed illegal in the courts. The courts compared the technology with the innovation of the original Sony videocasette recorder (VCR). Aren't MP3s illegal? MP3 is simply an audio format and as such has no legal standing. While rights owners have concerns about a format that is used to make digital copies of music, it's not the MP3 format itself that is at issue but rather the copying of music. quindi?