Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of legislation; 1. Introduction; 2. Applying the pre-P2P law to Napster; 3. Targeted attacks on the US secondary liability law; 4. The targeted response; 5. Post-Grokster fallout; 6. Goldilocks and the three laws: why rights holders would never have sued a P2P provider under UK or Canadian law (and why the Australian law was just right); 7. The end of the road for Kazaa; 9. Can the secondary liability law respond to code's revolutionary nature?; Notes to the text; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Code Wars recounts the legal and technological history of the first decade of the P2P file sharing era, focusing on the innovative and anarchic ways in which P2P technologies evolved in response to decisions reached by courts with regard to their predecessors. With reference to US, UK, Canadian and Australian secondary liability regimes, this insightful book develops a compelling new theory to explain why a decade of ostensibly successful litigation failed to reduce the number, variety or availability of P2P file sharing applications - and highlights ways the law might need to change if it is
