According to a TorrentFreak article, SourceForge is being sued in France because it is hosting Shareaza, a popular P2P file-sharing application, which happens to be used by the community for illegally sharing music.
This is just beyond ridiculous. You know, terrorists can use the telephone system to coordinate attacks, so why don’t we ban the telephone? I can make copies of music in my mind — why not ban thinking, too?
I wonder if the US-based companies that are being sued by the French record labels can be dragged over to France and prosecuted. The linked article says so, but if they refuse to fly to France to show up in court, can the French police ask the US police to seize them nonetheless? Can I be immune from ridiculous foreign lawsuits by residing in a country where it is legal? Does it make them liable because they are conducting their business in France by sending data traffic to that country? So many questions.
> I can make copies of music in my mind — why not ban thinking, too?
I sure there are people who would like to. Glad that it’s technically impossible. (-:
The companies that sell cd/dvd recordables should limit production of the recording medias by controlling the price of the media to a higher price because copying is so cheap nowadays that people don´t even think the harm, unemployment
to thenselves they are doing.