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.

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Re:Juristiction?

[HuguesT]

Thanks, very informative

I know just how to implament such a feature !

[tebee]

We need a feature to identify and block the transfer of copyright works? well how about this.....

We simply add a user settable tag to the file description to say whether the file is a copywrite protected work - if it's set on, refuse to copy it.

Well you may say, what if some naughty user didn't flag his files correctly? If the copyright holder finds he can download his works then all he needs to do is set the tag himself and he can rest safe in the knowledge that no one else will be able to download it - from his machine at least........