On Monday 23 August 2004 04:05 pm, Ian Clarke wrote: > On 23 Aug 2004, at 19:16, Nick Tarleton wrote: > > I'm contemplating writing a FUQID-like program for Linux/KDE, and I'd > > like to know a couple of answers first: > > > > 1. Is there ANY CHANCE AT ALL that I could get in legal trouble, under > > current US law, for creating and publishing a Freenet client? > > In short "yes", just as the answer to "Is there ANY CHANCE AT ALL that > I could get struck by lightening?" would also be "yes". Could you get > sued? Yes. Could they win the suit? Maybe, but the recent 9th > Circuit Court ruling in the Grokster case makes this less likely. > > The best advice I can give is to read this: > > http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/p2p_copyright_wp.php
Uh, never mind. It seems I would have no plausible deniability, as everyone knows a lot (most?) of the large file traffic on Freenet is in violation of copyright. Even if this would never hold up in court, I don't want to risk even getting a lawsuit threat/C&D letter. (BTW, I don't think the INDUCE Act will ever pass, and if it did, it wouldn't last long - can you imagine what The Public would think if MP3 player makers - big companies, not Jon Johansens - were hauled to court en masse?) _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general
