P2P court ruling

From Guardian Online blog: (Guardian Unlimited | Onlineblog | Peer to peer victory):

"A US federal court ruling says peer to peer services are not legally liable for the copyrighted works shared by their users, reports AP."

Further:

"Nikki Hemming (...) called on the entertainment industry to 'stop litigating and start partnering with us. Legislation is not the answer, commercialization of P2P is.' "

< rant >
Wonder how long it'll take the music industry to get that. Also, when they'll realise that CD sales is not going to be increased by more and more compilations of the same songs or CDs with just the one good hit and a lot of so-so for the rest. But rather good bands, new and inspired music, backed up by solid marketing - also for the names that customers do not already know ad nauseam...
< /rant >

Deeper coverage of the story on Wired News

A PS for the record: as a matter of fact I do not have any peer-to-peer software installed. Tried Kazaa's (at that time) latest version once - and was appalled by the amount of adware and probably also spyware it coinstalled, cleaned the whole thing up and never have looked at it again... Yuk.

[Listening to: Diana Krall - You're Looking at Me (5:33)]