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eBay Beats DMCA

Posted by Hemos on from the beating-it-like-a-drum dept.

pgrote writes "eBay won a court battle that brought to light a key provision of the DCMA. The judge says, "Although it may facilitate the sale of pirated material, "eBay does not have the right and ability to control such activity," a standard required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the judge wrote." So does that mean that the P2P file trading programs are legal since the pirating occurs off the sites? This is could be a very important precedent. " In talking to some lawyer friends, their perspective on part of the Napster case was that by being very difficult in the beginning, Napster almost doomed itself. But, as always, IANAL ? .

2 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. woo-hoo! by turbine216 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's great new for all of us John Tesh bootleggers!!!!

  2. Spike Milligan by AABS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't life in this case is imitating Spike Milligan, not Monty Python?