chiphart Wrote: 
> 
>       It's not like Pirate Bay actually HOSTS any first-run movies.
>       Just the information about where to get them.
> 
Indeed, and that's why they're still up and running and the Swedish
government is currently facing some tough questions involving the words
"USA" and "puppet".

> 
> It's not like
>       Napster actually hosted any mp3 files, the users did.  
> 
Different jurisdiction, different laws. US law essentially makes it
illegal to provide information or tools for the purpose of copyright
infringement.

In our specific case, the purpose of slimserver in it's current form
can hardly be argued to be copyright infringement, and so I don't think
there's an issue there. Of course if someone decided to run an instance
wide open to the world and people started downloading from it, well
there's clear infringement there. But they're basically just using
slimserver as a webserver, and no one has (yet!) considered sueing
Microsoft or Apache for aiding copyright infringement by supplying
webservers.


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