Torrent / Filesharing precedent set: 'Making Available' is illegal.
 

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

I saw that. Things are finally starting to get interesting. Lots of progress has been made in the past month.

Now, I think we are all anticipating the Viacom Vs. YouTube battle to put the nail in the coffin.

i hope they through the sponsors who advertise on those sites under the bus as well.

So what they are saying is that if you share a folder or upload music to a website directory, you are guilty of copyright infringement even if nobody actually downloaded it from you. Interesting.

Wonder how they came up with $40k

Ditto, I really hope they start going after the sponsors too, I'd love to read a headline saying lars and datinggold are sharing a cell with bubba and his butt buddies, or even better one of them gettin shived in the showers:1orglaugh

This has been a very happy week for me, It's about time scum start to be taken care of.

It's getting overturned if they appeal.

Let me point out that every once in a while a judge in the deep south used to rule against hahahahahaha rights. Or against women's rights. Or against all sorts of stuff.

Thanks for your useless post!