Less so with Napster, but more evident with Gnutella, surely the whole point is that these services facilitate the file swapping. They do not, ever, store any copyrighted material on their own servers. Surely then, the actual location of the napster servers is not relevant to their standing on copyright infringement as they never actually 'own' any illiegal information, such as mp3s or DVDs.
If this idea were extrapolated, it could mean that any site linking to a site which featured child pornography could be as guilty of the crime as the actual site itself.
So, I am busy scanning all my sites for links to m$ in case I get called a sympathiser or get drawn into any new anti-trust cases which anybody decides to throw at them:)
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If this idea were extrapolated, it could mean that any site linking to a site which featured child pornography could be as guilty of the crime as the actual site itself. So, I am busy scanning all my sites for links to m$ in case I get called a sympathiser or get drawn into any new anti-trust cases which anybody decides to throw at them :)