Judge rules against Morpheus file sharing

In victory for entertainment industry, judge says software encourages unauthorized sharing of music, movies, etc.

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[kyle172]

Cry babies

If they can't get anyone else they go right to the next one.

[unknown unknown]

If you read the decision

It's not surprising StreamCast lost considering the emails etc submitted as evidence against them and their (StreamCast)rather weak arugements to defend their position.

The EFF has kindly made the full text avalible on their website
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/motion_summary_judgement.pdf" target="_newWindow">http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/motion_summary_judgement.pdf</a>

I think this will ultimately be the undoing of commericial P2P clients (which is fine since they're usually the ones infested with adware). Hopefully this will serve as a list of do's and don'ts for P2P developers. This definitly doesn't make it look good for Limewire, though hopefully their people were smarter about what they said and did than StreamCast. Although even if Limewire the corporation gets shutdown, the source code for their Gnutella client has be on the net for a few years and has spawn clients based on it (like Frostwire). As we've seen before it virtually impossible to completely erase something from the internet.

[Leria]

Almost impossible to erase

Try totally impossible to erase something from the internet.

p2p developers are going to have to learn that you do not say in e-mails or anywhere else "Our program is for infringement!" like some of them have.

Though, I would like to see them sue Microsoft for creating FTP transfers in windows. Those can be used just as much as Azureus or Limewire to infringe, yet you don't see them trying to shut down that.