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...future for peer-to-peer file sharing services is, lately, looking a bit bleak. The page for StreamCast Networks’ Morpheus has a disclaimer about copyright infringement at the bottom that has grown to about three times its former length over the past two months. LimeWire now requires users to agree that they “will not use LimeWire…for copyright infringement” 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...
...opinion, written by Justice David H. Souter ’61, sided with MGM on the grounds that Grokster and StreamCast, the developers of Morpheus software, consciously knew that their software was primarily used to pirate copyrighted media and actively promoted such...
...decision overturned a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in MGM v. Grokster, which found that software developers Grokster and StreamCast Networks met a standard of having “substantial non-infringing uses,” citing the precedent of a Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios decision about Betamax technology in the early 1980s...
...record is replete with evidence that from the moment Grokster and StreamCast began to distribute their free software, each one clearly voiced the objective that recipients use it to download copyrighted works, and each took active steps to encourage infringement,” Souter wrote in his opinion...
Despite claims that the companies made users agree not to distribute copyrighted material, the opinion found that Grokster and StreamCast both were aware of and actively encouraged illegal file sharing by responding to user e-mail requests for help playing copyrighted movies...