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eBay Beats DMCA
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 ? .
Google has some very interesting search results when you type in DMCA and ebay: http://www.google.com/search?q=DMCA+ebay&hl=fr&lr= .
Enjoy!
the title of the Post on /. is a bit misleading.
the case did not beat the DMCA, it clarified it.
there is a big diffrence.
/. titles are worse thaan those on the local 10 o'clock new:
tragity down town: somthing bad almost happened
god people please stop the insanity
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Wow, you like to take it up the ass!
Online auction house
I say we put the DMCA up for auction on E-Bay as a "revenue protecting licence agreement text suitable for governments funded by large buisnesses". How much do you think it would go for?
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what that contry need is a few nuclear disasters... but unfortunatly the stupid people will probably die, they don't have any braincells to damage.. So it looks like Bush will be president for a very long time...
Napster and ebay both ought to be shut down and all of you faggots posting here should go back to taking it up the ass from goats. Fucking faggot, go suck a dick and stop bitching about money. The only reason a kike like you whines is because niggers and kikes don't have the money to win court cases. So go fuck off and stop bitching. Nobody gives a shit. And as for Dmitry, he deserves to be taking it up the ass from his cellmate. Anyone who violates the DMCA ought to be forced to take it up the ass.
At the risk of becoming serious flame-bait here, anyone stop to consider, that maybe the Feds are right here, and that the warrant is sealed for a reason, and not some government-coverup conspiracy crap?
Not everything the government does is evil - lets give the facts time to shake out before we castrate the government for this one. That is, if the facts ever come out...
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." - Thomas Jefferson
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