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US Court Clears P2P Firms

By Red Wolf

21 August 2004

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In Rights, Technology, World

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The makers of two leading file-sharing programs are not legally liable for the songs, movies and other copyright works swapped online by their users. Among other reasons, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said Grokster and StreamCast Networks, unlike the original Napster, were not responsible because they don’t have central servers pointing users to copyright material

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