A US federal court ruling says peer to peer services are not legally liable for the copyrighted works shared by their users, reports AP.
"The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc. were not responsible because they don't have central servers pointing users to copyright material.
"Nikki Hemming — chief executive officer of Sharman Networks, the Sydney-based company that distributes the immensely popular Kazaa peer-to-peer software — hailed the ruling as 'a fantastic result for the peer-to-peer community. This ruling reinforces similar decisions in other courts around the world that P2P is legal.'
"She called on the entertainment industry to 'stop litigating and start partnering with us. Legislation is not the answer, commercialization of P2P is.'"
