Last April a court
ruled that file-sharing software Grokster and
Morpheus were legal, something the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) wasn't pleased with as you can imagine. Last Monday the RIAA, the
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and the National Music Publishers
Association filed an appeal to a Los
Angeles district court judge's decision. Our thanks goes to GristyMcFisty for using our news submit :
 As expected, the three groups have asked the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to overturn the decision by U.S. District
Court Judge Stephen Wilson. They ask that the Grokster service and
Morpheus operator StreamCast Networks be held responsible for copyright
violations that occur on those P-to-P networks.
Services Rebut
Wilson's decision recognized that P-to-P services have
many legitimate uses, Michael Weiss, chief executive officer of StreamCast
Networks, says in a statement.
"In our case... the federal court recognized that you
can't ban new technology just because it threatens an old distribution
model," Weiss adds. "We expect to prevail and if we do not, we will take
this to the Supreme Court if we must. We also believe that the 63 million
file-sharing, voting Americans will take the issues to Congress, so that
the laws are passed to reflect social and economic realities."
The RIAA and MPAA argue in their appeal brief that the
P-to-P services make a huge profit from copyright infringement.
"Defendants reap millions of dollars in revenue from
their online trading bazaars by selling advertising they display to their
users while they engage in infringement," the brief
says. |
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Source: Yahoo! News
