Court Says Aimster Must Stay Offline
from the more-bad-rulings dept
A US Appeals court has ruled that the file sharing program Aimster (wasn’t the name changed to Madster?) needs to stay offline until they can prove that it’s being used for non-infringing purposes. That should be easy enough to show. Why not just have two people share a document they’re writing? Of course, this is quite a different ruling than the recent one saying that services like Kazaa and Grokster were legal, since they were just service providers and weren’t contributing to any illegal uses.
