The RIAA has been involved in long running litigation against file sharing software Madster (formally known as Aimster). 2 weeks ago, the Judge in the case issued a preliminary injunction. The Judge gave the RIAA 5 days to tell the court how Madster could filter out copyrighted material. On Wednesday last, the RIAA told the Judge how they believe copyrighted material can be filtered
on the Madster Network. Madster previously had 2 days (by Friday) to respond to the RIAA ‘filtering document’. It now has emerged that the lawyers for Madster (who are doing their work for free) issued a request last week that the deadline be extended to 7 days. It now seems that Madster, who still say they can’t filter, have been granted an extension to respond to the RIAA 101 page document. So by Wednesday or Thursday we will probably see Madster counterclaim that filtering is not possible on their p2p network. Then the debate over what and how filtering can be implemented on a p2p network should begin.
Meanwhile, in the same article Johnny Depp the Bankrupt creator of Aimster/Madster has given his first comments about the Preliminary Injunction. Very surprisingly he says he is delighted with the injunction. I just want someone to tell me what is a practical solution to this problem he said The judge asked the plaintiff to do the very thing I’ve asked the court to do�tell me what it is you want me to do. There is no practical solution to this problem. It seems that he is delighted that the Judge has put the burden on the RIAA work out how to filter copyrighted material on his network while at the same time keeping the network going. The spat over Madster’s ability to filter copyrighted material that will have massive legal precedent will continue this week with Madster’s reaction to the RIAA filling.
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