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Nice to see...

Posted Aug 20, 2004 22:22 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)
Parent article: Appeals court affirms Grokster decision

that a federal judiciary has ruled, in effect, that the doctrine of mandatory contributory infringement is crap: that as long as there *is* a legal use for a tool, that you're not a criminal for producing that tool.

Clearly, pipe bomb manufacturers should be criminals, but software companies?

Nuh-uh.


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Posted Aug 20, 2004 22:46 UTC (Fri) by kasheon (guest, #24158) [Link]

The user of the tool, not the tool, commits the crime. Should we punish
3M for making paper because a crazed lunatic slashes his office workers
with his notebook?

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