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...story advertised the debut of Wirehog—the latest from thefacebook.com creator Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07. Wirehog is a peer-to-peer file sharing tool that interfaces with thefacebook and allows its users to swap content—regardless of its copyright status—with friends at Harvard, and Stanford for the moment, and what will surely in short order be a wide network of colleges and universities...
...that you can use the software to “share pictures and other media with friends.” Pictures, presuming you took them yourself, are probably fine. “Other media” are what is likely to get you into trouble: it is almost certainly copyright infringement to use Wirehog to make reproductions of copyrighted works—which, so far as I can tell from a cursory scan of the files my friends have already made available, looks to be the software’s greatest use by a long shot...
...apply here at all, because iTunes streams music rather than creating reproductions, and it seems pretty likely the law would consider making songs available in this way to be a “public performance,” a right reserved for the holder of a copyright...
...them, that is, except the experts. If you were to follow the legal debate on copyright law (and I’m going to bet that you don’t), no matter which side you latched on to you’d be convinced the creative apocalypse was near. Academic legal scholars such as the fellows at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society are quick to caution that with extensions of the length of copyright and with legislative grants of additional powers that undermine the already weak fair use doctrine, the ability...
People tend to understand and accept the parts of the copyright law that make sense to them. And we tend to behave in ways we think it’s unlikely will get us into trouble. I would argue that as long as finding KaZaA users to sue remains as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, industry executives will probably not turn their efforts towards cracking down on college iTunes users or even Wirehog, unless they feel they can sue Apple or Mark Zuckerberg and get the software itself removed from the market...