Fair Use Doctrine: How To Download Files Using BitTorrent

Caution: accessing copyrighted files may constitute copyright infringement.

Plaintiffs are now pursuing BitTorrent swarms and may discover your IP address and personal information if you download or make your computer available to upload copyrighted works through BitTorrent.


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SDCA: Perfect 10 v Rapidshare: Preliminary Injunction Denied Against Filesharer Despite Specfic Knowledge of Infringements

In Perfect 10 v. Rapidshare (SDCA 09 CV 2596) May 18, 2010, the District Court denied a preliminary injunction against filesharing service provider.

I visited the company's website and watched the video here.   It looks like a service that would be helpful in our law practice - we are dealing with transmittal of larger and larger files and always interested in bringing down the cost and making it faster.

I couldn't tell from watching the video on the Rapidshare homepage with the nice German accents or reading the decision exactly how the peer-to-peer filesharing (ie accessing someone else's copyrighted works) might work.

But the judge found facts radically different from those in the Limewire case, an example of a a filesharing service that appears to be a pretty good citizen and a plaintiff who seeks to put the burden of policing its content onto a neutral third party.


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