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Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music

Posted by kdawson on from the if-i-can-hack-into-your-computer-are-you-liable dept.

JonathanF writes "If you were hoping judges would see reason and realize that just using a program that could violate copyright law is about as illegal as leaving your back door unlocked, think again. An Arizona district judge has ruled that a couple who hosted files in KaZaA is liable for over $40K in damages just because they 'made available' songs that could have been pirated by someone, somewhere. There's legal precedent, but how long do we have before the BitTorrent crew is sued?" The New York case testing the same theory is still pending.

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  1. Re:He who has the gold rules by bky1701 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Except for the fact that you'll get sued if you become too popular doing that. With the majority of music in existence now belonging to the RIAA in some way, I'd be easy for them to argue you violated their "copyright". I read a few stories about this already, and there isn't even any treat to them now.

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