Ruling in Aimster Case

Circuit Breaker writes "A short history of Aimster: Got noticed by the RIAA, lost their domain name to AOL, changed their name to Madster. More recently, a preliminary injunction has been issued against them, according to BBC News and Associated Press. Who's next?" Aimster declared bankruptcy months ago, so this is really a formality: beating a dead horse.

Comments

Precedent

[grent246]

What better way to establish precedent than by going up against a bankrupt company that can't mount a defence.....

Re:Flawed p2p app. Flawed business model.

[cioxx]

GNUnet too, although it's only for Linux/*BSD/Solaris.

DC works across the board, from *nix to Windows.

A judge with an odd sense of humor?

[Alsee]

From the Associated Press link:
[Judge] Aspen gave the companies suing Madster until next week to propose language for a "narrowly tailored" injunction that would end copyright infringement "while allowing non-infringing uses of the Aimster system, if any, to continue."

Somebody hit this judge with a clue-stick please?
It would be a lot easier to try to end the use of Madster by left handed people while allowing right handed to continue using the system. *

* Foot note, ambidexterous people can only use the system on tuesdays, thursdays, saturdays, and before noon on sundays.

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Aimster Info

[Evro]

I used to work at Aimster; for some more info about how they shafted their employees (similar to Loki I guess), read some of my old Journal entries:

• Fuck Aimster
• My Semi-Complete Aimster Saga
• Life Goes On, Sort Of - special bonus material: AIM chat with Aimster/BuddyUSA/Pi 2 CEO John Deep
• Aimster's proposed "settlement" of the money they owe me.

Also worthy of note is this site that John Deep has set up, ostensibly for his daughter to write about all her "knowledge" of the music industry; I'd put 10 to 1 odds that it's John himself writing that garbage, and 100 to 1 that it's not his daughter. The site is www.musicpundit.com.

Re:Aimster Info

[duffbeer703]

I can identify with your plight -- it sucks to work for a scumbag thief.

On the other hand, when you decide to join a company that does not and cannot make money, a company which very obviously is stealing/riding the tradmark of one of the largest corporations in the US and then choose to stay with a company that regularly misses payrolls, you have to accept some of the fault.

I work with some folks whose offices are in the same building on State St. as AIMster was located. They all saw the writing on the wall.