On Friday, a Washington, D.C., federal appeals court tossed out a key part of the industry’s legal strategy for tracking down and suing music swappers. A day earlier, Holland’s supreme court said Kazaa’s original owners weren’t liable for copyright infringement by people using their software. And last week, Canadian regulators said downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks–although not uploading–was legal in that country.
Is the Recording Industry Association of America no longer in the game? Far from it. In fact, hundreds of lawsuits against individual file swappers remain open, and more are on the way. But taken together, the decisions represent a step backward for copyright holders’ attempts to control unrestricted file swapping on peer-to-peer networks.
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