It looks like things are warming up in the Limewire camp.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17141Nine rights groups have joined together to file a friend of the court brief in what they say is the first major lawsuit against a creator of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software since the infamous MGM v Grokster.
In a coalition, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, the Consumer Electronics Association, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Home Recording Rights Coalition, Information Technology Association of America, Public Knowledge, Special Libraries Association, and the US Internet Industry Association warning the case, Arista v Lime Wire, has profound implications for the development of new software and hardware.
The technology industry, consumers, and copyright owners have all benefited from innovations like the photocopier, the CD burner, the iPod, and the personal computer, notwithstanding the fact that all of them can be misused.”
The group, “urges the court to apply the law in a manner that will not chill technological innovation and to reaffirm that developers should not be held liable for copyright infringement based on misuses of their technology that they did not actively promote,” says the EFF.
This is of course common sense interpretation of the laws, but if theres no cost in bringing such obviously frivolous actions the RIAA group and its affiliated corporate cronies will do so at every opportunity.
Perhaps an order for court costs and compensation for their victims may cool down their heels, but thats unlikley while they are still raking in excessive profits from other peoples work.
