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Grokster fights to maintain favourable ruling

17 September 2003 14:11 by Jari Ketola | 4 comments

Peer-to-peer company Grokster has filed a reponse to the appeal made by RIAA looking to overturn the earlier ruling, which found Grokster, as a software, legal.

In the ruling Judge Wilson compared Grokster to a video recorder. Both have illegal uses, but also substantial legitimate uses as well. The manufacturer of the product cannot be held liable for possible illegal uses.

Grokster president Wayne Rosso feels that instead of pursuing their rights through courts, RIAA should instead focus on licensing legitimate content to P2P users. "Five bucks a month from each of 60 million file sharers beats the hell out of filing a federal case to get $2,000 from a 12 year-old girl" Mr. Rosso was quoted commenting.

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wonderboy (Inactive) 18 September 2003 5:45
well said! I say we start a fund and get that girl back her money! [ + quote]
madmax123 (Inactive) 18 September 2003 11:15
the owners of the kazza premium service payed it for her. There was an artice about it somewhere [ + quote]
joy53 (Inactive) 19 September 2003 16:59
yes they did pay the $2000, thats was a good thing, God will bless them, and I know the mother appreciated that to the highest. Those dogs will get theirs. [ + quote]
Shegax (Junior Member) 20 September 2003 7:05
The quote is nice isn't it? Shega (adrenaline Is the closest Total freedom) [ + quote]