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[SCOTUS ruling]
In the ruling Justice David Souter wrote: "The question is under what circumstances the distributor of a product capable of
both lawful and unlawful use is liable for acts of copyright infringement by third parties using the product."
Okay, so did they just outlaw the Internet? "Distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright?" How the fuck do you determine that? Does that mean they expect every programmer/developer out there to see into the future to predict what possible illegal uses their program could be applied to. If I distribute something online and say it's just for distributing new movie trailers and linux distributions, and people use it to pirate movies and shit up the ass, am I in the clear? (the creator of Bittorrent).
Nice ruling, assholes.
In the ruling Justice David Souter wrote: "The question is under what circumstances the distributor of a product capable of
both lawful and unlawful use is liable for acts of copyright infringement by third parties using the product."
He added: "We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright ... is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties."
Okay, so did they just outlaw the Internet? "Distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright?" How the fuck do you determine that? Does that mean they expect every programmer/developer out there to see into the future to predict what possible illegal uses their program could be applied to. If I distribute something online and say it's just for distributing new movie trailers and linux distributions, and people use it to pirate movies and shit up the ass, am I in the clear? (the creator of Bittorrent).
Nice ruling, assholes.
