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2 Major File-Sharing Services Are Not Liable for Illegal Copying by Users, Federal Appeals Court Rules

By SCOTT CARLSON

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...

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