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The Supreme Court did not find the code Illegal
What the court found was that a company could be held liable if they promoted an otherwise legally neutral program they had created as a tool for copyright infringement in order to profit from it. They were very clear that it was that behavior and not the code that was at issue. To say otherwise would have jeopardized any and all applications that could allow some form of illegal file sharing including IIS, Apache, ftpd, BBS code, AOL and shoot for that matter the drivers for floppy disks. What distinguishes a P2P file sharing programs from say a virus is that the code may be used for many clear and legal uses. For example, Bittorent is used to to distribute many forms of legal software and content where there is a need share a large file where many people desire it but your own local server resources are limited or non-existent. Remember for all their bitching there is a huge amount of material on peer to peer networks that is legal and they themselves sometimes use these programs or derivatives of them to transmit their own content. The court essentially said you may sell these hammers but you may not promote them a tools for breaking in entry. Which makes sense.

Now you would have to be deaf, dumb and blind to think they are not trying to reinterpret and extend that opinion to mean more than it did. From reading the few comments I see here, it is clear some people are already buying that ignorant line of reasoning.
Posted by: alricsca   Posted on: 08/04/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Limewire Law suit  mcdonaj | 08/04/06
Erm...  A_Pickle | 08/04/06
Like all thieves, your excuse SUX.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/05/06
Not completely....  shawkins | 08/05/06
Hell yeah!  PhantomX | 08/05/06
Digital Mafia  Mectron | 08/05/06
A little arm twisting?  boomchuck1 | 08/07/06
The artist?  Spoon Jabber | 08/08/06
"Thieves" imply theft which implies stealing  thelemite | 08/07/06
No Ax has repeatedly acknowledged that he's in the wrong...  tic swayback | 08/07/06
Yes, but it sounds so much more serious...  Spoon Jabber | 08/08/06
thieving ?  bubba.is.a.god | 08/07/06
bubba  harrisharris | 08/07/06
Forest Gump  bubba.is.a.god | 08/08/06
The Dutch Language  harrisharris | 08/13/06
iTunes or rip my CD  nomorems | 08/08/06
Rip the CD or Itunes and then Emule (or crack Itunes)  GreatInca | 08/09/06
And now the music industry runs smack into the GPL...  John Le'Brecage | 08/04/06
The code itself  Michael Kelly | 08/04/06
Not understanding you Mike...  John Le'Brecage | 08/05/06
Already been forked...  Nekow42 | 08/04/06
The Supreme Court did not find the code Illegal  alricsca | 08/04/06
You're right.  Anton Philidor | 08/06/06
Message has been deleted.  AnonymousBugMeNotUser | 08/04/06
How long have you worked at Dotso.com??  LibrarianDude | 08/06/06
Reply to Librarian  AnonymousBugMeNotUser | 08/18/06
Message has been deleted.  myfevertoy | 10/22/06
More scum to get their due  realitycheck101 | 08/04/06
And your ignorance shows  barsteward | 08/05/06
It takes two to tango.  HypnoToad | 08/05/06
its the judicial hypocrasy  barsteward | 08/06/06
What's legal and what's not  tic swayback | 08/07/06
It;'s funny to see...  Mectron | 08/05/06
Goodbye, virus-spreading crapware.  A_Pickle | 08/04/06
What has this to do with Windows!?!  Laff | 08/05/06
Damn. $150k per song as compensation for being "hurt".  HypnoToad | 08/05/06
if only  PhantomX | 08/05/06
Artists get no money  tic swayback | 08/07/06
Church of the Painful OS  Reverend MacFellow | 08/05/06
Limewire  krg1975 | 08/05/06
"damage" - krg1975  brian ansorge | 08/05/06
a little grumpy are we?  krg1975 | 08/05/06
well in a way,,yeah  Apathy78 | 08/06/06
So...can we sue the music distributors?  TechinMN | 08/07/06
LimeWire makes copies of music??  tripolitan | 08/05/06
yeah I agree,  Apathy78 | 08/06/06
Or better yet...  harrisharris | 08/13/06
The good and the bad to this article.  Stellardyne | 08/06/06
Go back to the Kazaa decision  tic swayback | 08/07/06
Still trying to figure out...  TechinMN | 08/07/06
Two things  tic swayback | 08/08/06
Lawsuit + RIAA = Useless  Grayson Peddie | 08/06/06
Dont give away your cd's???  cyberkahuna45 | 08/06/06
Dont give away your cd's???  bsuch | 08/06/06
So when did copying change?  cyberkahuna45 | 08/06/06
Re: So when did copying change?  Apathy78 | 08/06/06
what is the difference?  Mectron | 08/06/06
Differences  tic swayback | 08/07/06
coping did not change  Michael@... | 08/07/06
Dont give away your cd's???  boomchuck1 | 08/07/06
Same old fatuous argument from music industry  anthony_hunt | 08/07/06
Re: Same old fatuous argument from music industry  Michael@... | 08/07/06
Its the hypocrisy that stinks  cr0wn3r | 08/07/06
flood gates open for bear share, reminds me of thepiratebay  arcon5 | 08/07/06
Beating a dead horse  tic swayback | 08/07/06
RIAA needs to go to jail  RIAAsucks | 08/07/06
I think you have that backwards  tic swayback | 08/07/06
Let's call a spade a spade  TripleII | 08/07/06
Didn't look at Limewire too good did u?  craftycorner@... | 08/07/06
Actually, I did  TripleII | 08/07/06
Limewire not responsible  tic swayback | 08/08/06
You Are Kidding  whoozhe@... | 08/07/06
the Music Industry of the past is extinct.  Castanet | 08/07/06
P2P, Lime Wire  benf_z | 08/07/06
The law is actually winning here  tic swayback | 08/08/06
Beware "legal" Album Downloads  jumpa | 08/08/06
Beware "legal" Album Downloads Addendum  jumpa | 08/08/06
Charging more for less  tic swayback | 08/08/06
Sony needs to sue its self  mwisniew | 08/08/06
lets audit the music companies  rstran | 08/08/06
OUR music rights  rstran | 08/08/06
No, you can't  tic swayback | 08/08/06
the end of "pay me then, pay me now, pay me later"{  dmennie | 08/08/06
Not Any More  BlackDiamond | 08/10/06
Music industry way off track with song and dance about falling sales  Dinki-Di | 08/18/06

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