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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Re-visitng Napster: What's going to happen to file-sharing sites like Megaupload?



Napster's logo
One might wonder how and why file sites like Megaupload(MU) are shut down due to copyright infringement. These sites only allow users to upload files, it is therefore the users who infringe copyright. All files that are shared may not be infringing copyright. However, the reasoning behind was well established a long time ago in the Napster case. Here is a summary of the case so that