Brazilian Court Bans P2P Software

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 18, 2009 @04:04PM from the next-up-cars-and-cheeseburgers dept.

Earlier this year, at the behest of an anti-piracy group consisting of the usual suspects from the recording industry, a Brazilian court ruled that a company named Cadare Information Technology must implement a filter on the P2P software they distributed on their website to weed out copyrighted content. Cadare was unable comply with the order because they didn't develop the software; they merely offered it for download. The case went back to court, and a Brazilian judge has now decided to ban distribution of the software because it can be used to assist copyright infringement. "He went on to suggest that any website offering the software alongside advertising (i.e, trying to profit from offering it) would be committing a crime, punishable by between two and four years in jail."

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Re:Why just p2p? by whoever57 · 2009-09-18 17:02 · Score: 3, Interesting

So, then, explain to me why it is impossible to use Google in a way that infringes copyright.

And, if you cannot, why then it is different from these other search providers.
It has nothing to do with technical differences and everything to do with how the tools are used. Yes, P2P has legitimate uses and is used by many for legitimate trading of files. However, the dominant use is illegitimate trading of files.

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Re:Why just p2p? by Totenglocke · 2009-09-18 17:31 · Score: 3, Interesting

One of the dominate uses of the internet is viewing porn (not going into any potential copyright on said porn). Does that mean that the internet should be banned under existing obscenity laws?

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