MyDogHsFleas
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join:2007-08-15
Austin, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Southwest
| Why is this even a debate? RIAA wins, file sharers lose.
Read the opinion. It says, essentially, that "making available" is not a valid complaint... but it also says that "distributing" and "publishing" are synonymous, and that sharing files into Kazaa is "distributing", and that's a copyright violation. It goes on to deny defendant's motion to dismiss, and to give plaintiff 30 days to amend their complaint.
All that happened here was some legal fine-tuning on the wording of RIAA lawsuits. They can still sue you, and win, if they see your IP address sharing copyrighted material on the Internet, and they find you via a John Doe subpoena to your ISP. They just have to call it the right thing under the letter of the law. |
