Victory For Music Locker Services?

Joining the ranks of accepted submitters, a user writes "Michael Robertson, the owner and founder of the MP3Tunes music locker service, has been locked in a copyright infringement case with EMI Records for a while now, especially because of the Sideloading search engine that is tacked along with the locker service. Now the case has been resolved though: EMI Records won. But lost on all the accounts that actually really matter." The important parts here are that MP3Tunes was granted safe harbor protection under the DMCA, and that merging multiple copies of the same file doesn't make distributing that master copy a public performance.

Re:Wait, what?

[sanosuke001]

It wasn't a jurist; it was the Judge. However, your skepticism still seems relevant...

Re:Gaygirlie

[Translation Error]

How come homosexuals get to constantly get to broadcast their sexual orientation all the damn time? Typical reverse discrimination that runs rampant these days.

I know! It's terrible that they can just run around offending everyone by being themselves while those poor straight people have to skulk around, being careful about displaying affection in public lest they risk hostility and possibly even violence. Something must be done!

Time for a new law!

[erroneus]

Looks like the RIAA will be shopping for a new law. Any legislators or political party in need of funding? I think I know where your next "donation" is coming from.

Re:Victory? No

[Trepidity]

Yeah, I take it to be basically a two-part decision: 1) if you run a music locker service in a non-stupid way, you are legally safe; and 2) MP3Tunes failed to run theirs in a non-stupid way. So for everyone else, #1 is still good precedent, assuming they don't do something absurd like have the founder himself upload and post public links to "privately" stored music he doesn't own the rights to.