September 3, 2004
2 Major File-Sharing Services Are Not Liable for Illegal Copying by Users, Federal Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court has ruled that two well-known file-sharing services are not responsible for illegal copying of movies and music by the services' users, strongly upholding a ruling by a lower court.
The recording and movie industries had sued Grokster, which makes a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program, and StreamCast Networks, the maker of the file-sharing program Morpheus. The entertainment industry charged that the creators of the file-sharing programs were liable for
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