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French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge
An anonymous reader notes that TorrentFreak is reporting: "French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire, and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge. ... Putting aside the discussion on the responsibilities of application developers for their users activities, the decision to go after SourceForge for hosting a application that can potentially infringe, is stretching credibility beyond all bounds." SourceForge is Slashdot's corporate parent.
SPFF had already sued the various companies and organizations last year, but until now it has been unclear whether the US based companies behind the applications could be prosecuted under French law. A French court has now ruled that this is indeed possible, which means that they can proceed to court.
How are non-french companies not operating in France (so far as I know) subject to French law?
Someone should let them know that only America can get away with that.
I hope they go after those evil, piracy-enabling, hard disk manufacturers next.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
They should sue Google for not censoring results to sites that host P2P applications.
Then they should target ISPs for not blocking access to Google and all the other "infringing" sites.
And while they're at it, sue Slashdot for talking about this.
Ok, but just out of boredom. I can easily see Balmer shouting: "développeurs, développeurs, développeurs!"
It's a conspiracy involving CmdrTaco, CowboyNeal, SourceForge, the French government and the Illuminati. I'd tell you more, but I've probably said too much already.
Posted AC for the obvious reasons.