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...before they can download the software. The page for i2hub, which closed down last week under pressure from the recording industry, has been replaced with a simple memorial reading “Remember i2hub. R.I.P. 03.14.2004-11.14.2005.” And then there’s the Grokster, notable for its role in a recent suit by MGM that went all the way to the Supreme Court, which now observes on its page that the use of its service to trade copyrighted material was, as “unanimously confirmed” by the Court, illegal. Grokster wasn?...
...music. The Motion Picture Association of America had also filed similar litigation against individuals who allegedly shared copyrighted movies over i2hub. Legal issues seem particularly likely to underlie the i2hub shutdown in light of the Supreme Court’s June decision in the case of MGM Studios v. Grokster, in which the Court ruled that file-sharing services could be held responsible for the illegal use of their programs if they were found to have promoted the sharing of copyrighted material. The RIAA released a statement in reaction to i2hub’s downfall. “We continue...
...closed P2P environment.” He did so in response to a cease-and-desist letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) which threatened immediate litigation unless MetaMachine blocked the sharing of copyrighted content on its networks. Since a June 27, 2005 Supreme Court ruling against Grokster gave record labels and movie studios the green light to sue file-sharing services, the RIAA has been busy with a letter writing campaign to shut down these services. Though file-sharing services are only guilty of a crime if they encourage illegal downloading (and Yagan steadfastly holds that eDonkey...
...online file-sharing more than two years ago, according to Engebretsen. So far, 10 of those 18 cases have ended in out-of-court settlements. The most recent round of lawsuits marks the third time that RIAA litigation has targeted i2hub users. Engebretsen said the case of MGM v. Grokster, decided by the United States Supreme Court in July, has ushered in a new “post-Grokster era” in the world of online file sharing. “In the wake of the unanimous ruling by the United States Supreme Court in the Grokster case this...
...Grokster opinion was Solomnic because nobody hated it. It can go either way,” he said...