Court: RIAA Can Sue Just For Possessing Pirated Music
MediaPost is reporting that a federal district court judge has sided with the record industry in one of the most hotly contested issues to come up in copyright infringement cases—whether people can be sued just for making tracks available to Kazaa users.
In his 25-page opinion, New York judge Kenneth Karas held that placing tracks in a shared folder can violate copyright law because such activity constitutes publication and an offer to distribute, the report said.
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