IAAL*: What Peer-to-Peer Developers Need to Know about Copyright Law
The future of peer-to-peer file-sharing is entwined, for better or worse, with copyright law. Copyright owners have already targeted not only the makers of file-sharing clients like Napster, Scour, Audiogalaxy, Aimster and Kazaa, and Morpheus, but also companies that provide products that rely on or add value to public P2P networks, such as MP3Board.com, which provided a web-based search interface for the gnutella network. The U.S. Supreme Court in MGM v. Grokster addressed some, but by no means all, of the copyright law issues that may confront P2P developers and other technologists in the future.
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