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Gnutella 2 clients2/14/2023 ![]() ![]() Interestingly, the court largely sidestepped the technical issues as to whether Gnutella itself had non-infringing uses or not, or whether a Gnutella client can be legally distributed. On October 26, 2010, the court handed down an injunction that permanently prevents Lime Wire from distributing its software or running any servers that maintain the Lime Wire system. ![]() Lime Group case has been a victory for the plaintiffs. It is worthwhile to examine the the current state of affairs, which is predictable in some ways and yet quite surprising in others. Since that time, a great deal has occurred in the world of filesharing. It was my view that the decision in the case could be made to turn on the actions that Lime Wire was taking to control spammers on the Gnutella network, and if the case were examined in that light, Lime Wire could be found liable for contributory infringement while still respecting the First Amendment rights of software publishers. Lime Wire, without advertising as much, was acting as a spam cop for Gnutella, keeping the network safe for infringers. These articles presented an analysis which showed that any open filesharing network, such as Gnutella, is vulnerable to spamming. It was presented on Freedom-to-Tinker in a series of three posts ( 1, 2, 3). Almost exactly 2 years ago, I wrote an essay that examined the case of Arista Records et al v. ![]()
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