You heard it right. 'Making files available' is just as naughty as hosting them.
"If you were hoping judges would see reason and realize that just using a program that could violate copyright law is about as illegal as leaving your back door unlocked, think again. An Arizona district judge has ruled that a couple who hosted files in KaZaA is liable for over $40K in damages just because they 'made available' songs that could have been pirated by someone, somewhere. There's legal precedent, but how long do we have before the BitTorrent crew is sued?"
Original:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...ringement.html
Case testing the bittorrent angle:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...039209&tid=123
"If you were hoping judges would see reason and realize that just using a program that could violate copyright law is about as illegal as leaving your back door unlocked, think again. An Arizona district judge has ruled that a couple who hosted files in KaZaA is liable for over $40K in damages just because they 'made available' songs that could have been pirated by someone, somewhere. There's legal precedent, but how long do we have before the BitTorrent crew is sued?"
Original:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...ringement.html
Case testing the bittorrent angle:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...039209&tid=123


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