You just gave me an idea: It is not what limewire offers, but the way how it is presented, that makes the difference for a judge.
If it offers a ripper, which rips the CDS and then asks "Do you want to share the ripped mp3s in gnutella? Be aware, that sharing copy-protected materials is illegal, as long as the license doesn't eplicitly allows it."
Which means to the judge: We told the Users, that sharing the wrong CDs is illegal, but since there are CDs which can be shared (i.e. creative commons att-sa CDs), we do no wrong.
If teh User doesn't share the CDs, then the folder with the ripped mp3s isn't added to the share, but the mp3s stay ripped. Now we just need to find a good cross-plattform GPLled ripper. |