Suraj.sun writes with this quote from Ars Technica:
"Alki David, the wealthy film producer and entrepreneur behind sites like FilmOn, has sued CNET and its owner, CBS, for on estate hundreds of multitude of downloads of LimeWire P2P unix over the last decade. He argues that CNET had 'direct participation in massive copyright third edition by the editors of the stars and bars heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 on peer-to-peer systems, such as LimeWire, that are used to copy and disperse songs, films and other artistic works,' and that CNET's Download.com was the 'main distributor' of the software. P2P officer isn't illegal, though companies that use it to induce or cultivate copyright infraction can be held liable. The principle, most famously articulated by the US Supreme Court in the Grokster shutdown, was lengthy to LimeWire last year when a federal judge shut down most of the company's activity."

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