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Monday, November 07, 2005
Grokster's gone
Yahoo! is reporting that file-sharing software firm Grokster has shut down. A message on Grokster's site confirms this:
"The United States Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that using this service to trade copyrighted material is illegal. Copying copyrighted motion picture and music files using unauthorized peer-to-peer services is illegal and is prosecuted by copyright owners. There are legal services for downloading music and movies. This service is not one of them."
As this news breaks, I'm watching downloaded copies of BBC programmes free, and completely legally, with iMP. Go figure.
posted by paul, 7:47 PM
2 Comments:
That's a really strange statement. On the site, I mean.
(after a quick browse) Aah, looks like it's court-mandated. Along with $50m in damages.
