The Grokster ruling -- good for open source

The Grokster ruling -- good for open source

Posted Jun 30, 2005 6:44 UTC (Thu) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498)
In reply to: The Grokster ruling -- good for open source by ssavitzky
Parent article: The Grokster ruling

This ruling will also effect the architecture of P2P software. I think we
will see a lot more of the bittorrent style divergence between search
tools and services that find sources of files (legit and less-than-so) and
tools that carry out the actual transfer mechanism. Thus, a torrent
search tool/service, that does not implement even a basic filtering system
could be liable, while the actual bittorent protocol client software would
be much, much harder to go after.

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