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...Vicarious copyright infringement," as a business model, just went down the tubes. In the United States, at least...
...Appeals left little doubt Wednesday that Napster as we know it is dead, ruling that U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel's injunction against the service would stand, with a little retooling. In a 58-page ruling, the three-judge panel said that Napster must stop trading in copyrighted material and may be held liable for "vicarious copyright infringement." Napster must also prevent users from gaining access to copyrighted content through its lists of songs archived by the service's users...
...that the free-music revolution is over just yet. Gnutella, iMesh, Aimster and FreeNet are all Napster-style music-trading facilitators, and unaffected by the ruling. Some believe that subtle differences in method will help them beat litigation, although the term "vicarious copyright infringement" tends to sum up the reason for, say, Gnutella's existence just as well as Napster's. But until those services get fat enough on Napster's users to catch the eye of the Big Five music labels (Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal) and their lawyers, there is such a thing as a free lunch...
...then, of course, the services could always move overseas, to Tijuana or Antigua or Vancouver or the Cayman islands - if the servers are offshore, so's the defendant, and the long arm of U.S. copyright law won't do the labels or their artists much good. It's a tactic taken by many a gambling site - and the U.S. government is still struggling with how to deal with the situation...
...also have been told that the books are all sold out at the Coop and that the sourcebook--due to a combination of copyright issues, a labor stoppage and the head TF being put on probation for taking a cut of the $119 sticker price--will not be available until about a week before the midterm. Given the unique "approach to knowledge" in this class, it may be hard for us to proceed without the reading material, though the professor has provided the TFs with copies of his lectures, which I may read through again with you, word for word...