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If you thought the RIAA had cornered the market on heavy-handed, misguided lawsuits, think again. TorrentFreak reports that the Societe civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) plan on pursuing a lawsuit against three US-based companies that develop P2P applications. Vuze, LimeWire, and Shareaza are the applications targeted in the lawsuit. There is a fourth company named that's not a developer, or a P2P site -- it's a repository.
It's actually not just any repository. It is, for many, the repository for open source applications -- Sourceforge.
Two federal judges, one in Boston and one in New York each came to different conclusions regarding the legality of using file sharing services on the same day. The judge in Boston was hearing a case brought by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) against a number of Boston University students. In that case, the judge ruled that simply making a file available for download is not a violation of the copyright until someone actually downloads it.
