On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:23:05PM -0400, Nick Tarleton wrote: > On Monday 23 August 2004 04:05 pm, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On 23 Aug 2004, at 19:16, Nick Tarleton wrote: > > > I'm contemplating writing a FUQID-like program for Linux/KDE, and I'd > > > like to know a couple of answers first: > > > > > > 1. Is there ANY CHANCE AT ALL that I could get in legal trouble, under > > > current US law, for creating and publishing a Freenet client? > > > > In short "yes", just as the answer to "Is there ANY CHANCE AT ALL that > > I could get struck by lightening?" would also be "yes". Could you get > > sued? Yes. Could they win the suit? Maybe, but the recent 9th > > Circuit Court ruling in the Grokster case makes this less likely. > > > > The best advice I can give is to read this: > > > > http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/p2p_copyright_wp.php > > Uh, never mind. It seems I would have no plausible deniability, as everyone > knows a lot (most?) of the large file traffic on Freenet is in violation of > copyright. Even if this would never hold up in court, I don't want to risk > even getting a lawsuit threat/C&D letter.
Everyone knows most of the files shared by Grokster users were illegal. Right? But they won the case! So the situation is clearly not that simple. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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