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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.
Nothing is going to happen to Slashdot. Try reading your Bible more carefully...
Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But for now my kingdom is not from here." --John 18:36
If you wish to reap the Spiritual rewards mentioned in Galatians, perhaps you should be expending your energy on your relationship with God rather than making unfounded predictions about the fate of a worldly institution.
This is coming from a country that were happy to set off nukes in the pacific because they didn't what to bow to international pressure. Pricks.
Not to mention blow up Greenpeace's boat in Auckland's harbour over the same matter, but that's getting a little off topic.
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And what they can do is much much worse. They could try to hijack every DNS-request for sourceforge and redirect it to a french RIAA website. If they try to do that hard enough they could start a split in DNS and starting the end of the internet as we know it.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.