A while back I read an article on Joost, and now it seems like it is finally available. I came across another article called “feeling down need a joost here it is” recently, so I assume I should be able to watch things on Joost now. I am going to go and see what is available to see if there is anything that looks interesting to me. Hopefully there will be a lot of different shows to choose from so I will be able to entertain myself for a while with my laptop when I am away from home and stuck waiting.

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LimeWire In Danger As RIAA Bites

Filesharing giant LimeWire and its founder Mark Gorton are looking a little sheepish after a recent New York court decision. The 59-page decision by Kimba Wood set out the misdemeanors by LimeWire to include “Unfair Competition, and inducing copyright infringement”. LimeWire could face damage payments of up to a maximum of $150,000 per work on which it is decided copyright has been infringed. The RIAA are also likely to seek a temporary injunction from the courts which would mean LimeWire would have to cease immediately its filesharing operations.

This is a blow to filesharing networks and their users everywhere. The networks have long argued that they cannot be blamed for what people use their networks for, and that if they choose to put illegal music on there, then there is nothing they can do. Until now this defense has worked perfectly, but this decision might just end all that. Network owners will be particularly worried to see that LimeWire founder Gorton is singled out as being liable in this case: no immunity behind a corporation stonewall this time.

While this is unlikely to be a death knell to filesharing, it could certainly cause some major systemic shifts by networks and users in the way they operate. Networks with no one owner – Ares and its many forms, for instance – are likely to do the best from this judgment, since it is difficult to see how to stop something that is effectively owned by no one (or everyone, depending on which way you want to view it). In particular Ares is open source, so closing down one branch (if they found a way to do that) would simply see another popping up elsewhere.

So the RIAA have finally got a victory, and it will encourage them to make more claims against other networks. But is it a Pyrrhic victory? Probably.