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Thread #82486   Message #1511024
Posted By: DMcG
27-Jun-05 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Supreme Court Rules against Filesharing
Subject: Supreme Court Rules against Filesharing
See this account.

Filesharing itself has been discussed here many times, for example "downloading music".

I'm interested in the concept that a manufacturer is responsible not only for what s/he produces, but what other people then do with them.

Can we expect kitchen cutlery producers to be prosecuted if someone uses a knife they made for a murder?

Or staying in the computer field, can Microsoft be sued if someone uses their C compiler to write a filesharing program?