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Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Aug 16, 2004 12:07 UTC (Mon) by arafel (subscriber, #18557)
In reply to: Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet) by bilateralrope
Parent article: Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet)

I'm intrigued - on what basis did they sue him, exactly? Writing a program to catalogue the contents of shares isn't a violation of *anything*, as far as I know.

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Posted Aug 16, 2004 14:36 UTC (Mon) by msmelov (guest, #11243) [Link]

Do you really need to violate anything to be sued?
The point is that you can't afford to defend yourself, so you settle and
comply with their demands.

Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Aug 16, 2004 15:03 UTC (Mon) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link]

If it's blatantly obvious that they don't have any basis to sue you on, how long would it take the case to get thrown out of court?