[Kellie aka Ms. B]

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040820/D84IVH480.html

and related article specific to the court decision:

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040820/D84INSPO0.html

Definitely worth a read and thought on the possible implications of this.

[ecomcity]

The entire affiliate industry, all music and video copywrite owners and the adware/spyware perps can thank these liberal democrap San Francisco Judges for making their political adjenda into laws from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
THE JUDGES OF THIS COURT IN ORDER OF SENIORITY:



Mary M. Schroeder MMS Chief Judge
James R. Browning JRB Senior Circuit Judge
Alfred T. Goodwin ATG Senior Circuit Judge
J. Clifford Wallace JCW Senior Circuit Judge
Joseph T. Sneed JTS Senior Circuit Judge
Procter Hug, Jr. PRH Senior Circuit Judge
Otto R. Skopil ORS Senior Circuit Judge
Betty Binns Fletcher BBF Senior Circuit Judge
Jerome Farris JF Senior Circuit Judge
Harry Pregerson HP Circuit Judge
Arthur L. Alarcon ALA Senior Circuit Judge
Warren J. Ferguson WJF Senior Circuit Judge
Dorothy W. Nelson DWN Senior Circuit Judge
William C. Canby, Jr. WCC Senior Circuit Judge
Robert Boochever RB Senior Circuit Judge
Stephen Reinhardt SR Circuit Judge
Robert R. Beezer RRB Senior Circuit Judge
Cynthia Holcomb Hall CHH Senior Circuit Judge
Melvin Brunetti MB Senior Circuit Judge
Alex Kozinski AK Circuit Judge
John T. Noonan, Jr. JTN Senior Circuit Judge
David R. Thompson DRT Senior Circuit Judge
Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain DFO Circuit Judge
Edward Leavy EL Senior Circuit Judge
Stephen Trott SST Circuit Judge
Ferdinand F. Fernandez FFF Senior Circuit Judge
Pamela Ann Rymer PAR Circuit Judge
Thomas G. Nelson TGN Senior Circuit Judge
Andrew J. Kleinfeld AJK Circuit Judge
Michael Daly Hawkins MDH Circuit Judge
A. Wallace Tashima AWT Circuit Judge
Sidney R. Thomas SRT Circuit Judge
Barry G. Silverman BGS Circuit Judge
Susan P. Graber SPG Circuit Judge
M. Margaret McKeown MMM Circuit Judge
Kim McLane Wardlaw KMW Circuit Judge
William A. Fletcher WAF Circuit Judge
Raymond C. Fisher RCF Circuit Judge
Ronald M. Gould RMG Circuit Judge
Richard A. Paez RAP Circuit Judge
Marsha S. Berzon MSB Circuit Judge
Richard C. Tallman RCT Circuit Judge
Johnnie B. Rawlinson JBR Circuit Judge
Richard R. Clifton RRC Circuit Judge
Jay S. Bybee JSB Circuit Judge
Consuelo M. Callahan CMC Circuit Judge
Carlos T. Bea CTB Circuit Judge

[ecomcity]

One nice benefit will be the anger raised by this ruling at 46 Attorney Generals offices. You can bet they'll turn up the heat now on the FTC and their own laws to run the adware/spyware P2P bundlers out of business or face criminal charges.

"The decision came nearly two weeks after attorneys general from 45 states sent letters to seven companies that offer online file-sharing software, including Grokster and Streamcast, hinting at possible legal consequences if the networks don't better inform computer users about potential copyright violations from sharing files.

The attorneys general asked the companies to improve how they inform those who use their software about potential legal and security risks associated with file-sharing, which include being sued for copyright infringement, identity theft, and unwittingly being exposed to pornography, computer viruses and spyware."

[chetf]

But the issue was not spyware, adaware, etc. It was about multiuse, non-centralized technology. It was a good ruling, if it went down, ftp clients would be up next.

Chet