P2P Networks: Ninth Circuit Rejects Contributory Infringement Claims

[Martin Köbele]

On Monday, 8. November 2004 18:40, Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Friday 20 August 2004 16:30, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > Since the legality of P2P software has come up from time to time on
> > this list, I would like to report some good news which, just by
> > happenstance ;-), confirms my legal analysis of the situation:
>
> If I understand the ruling correctly it implies that all distributed p2p
> networks would be considered legal. As long as there's no central
> indexing authority, the network is not infringing, right?

this is how I understand it as well.

Martin
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