Watch out file traders
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 26, 2003 at 3:34:15 PM
Just because a lawsuit said the file swapping software was legal, doesn't get you off the hook. The copyright monkeys may try to come after the individual user.
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In fact, the ruling could accelerate the labels' plans to go after individual users, especially when coupled with a decision Thursday in a separate case that gives them more power to unmask the identity of individual file swappers. In that decision, a judge said Internet service provider Verizon had 14 days to turn over the name of a subscriber accused of offering music files for download using the Kazaa file-swapping service.