Information Week is reporting that after a long series of trials and appeals, courts have upheld the rights of companies to produce peer-to-peer (P2P) applications for file sharing. Movie and record-producing companies have been suing to shut down all P2P apps as they are the main source for illegally copied MP3s, movies, and warez (i.e. cracked software). This goes back to the old VCR case where the courts ruled that VCRs were legal for recording television programs, and that manufacturers could not be held responsible if a small minority of their users misused the technology for illegal activities like selling copies of pirated TV shows.
This is good news for all kinds of people, and proof again that in the USA you can not ban good tech just because some idiot can misuse it somewhere, somehow, maybe. It is also a blow to the efforts of the RIAA and MPAA to stop piracy, as now they have to actually go after the people trading these illegal files. Which means more bad press.
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