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CNET Sued For Offering Perfectly Legal Software. For Free.

“Let’s take this copyright-trolling thing to the next level. And call the Ying Yang Twins & Uncle Luke, too - it’s not like they got anything else going on.”

…2 Live Crew and Ying Yang Twins to press the case that CBS subsidiary CNET contributed to the growth of the copyright-disrespecting file-sharing era.

Here’s the sleazy justification:

[Aliki] David’s new lawsuit looks to expand responsibility for Internet piracy. If copyright theft is analogous to a bank robbery, and a getaway car driver can be held partly responsible for participating in the crime, what about the car mechanic that tunes up the car so that it’s fast enough to evade the police?

According to the complaint, users downloaded more than 220 million copies of LimeWire off of CBS websites, which allegedly constituted 95% of all LimeWire downloads. The plaintiffs say that CBS received ”massive amounts of revenue from P2P providers” and were very knowledgeable about what was going on.

That’s it. I’m suing Microsoft for damages. They created the OS that enables users to download “software,” which we all know can be used for all sorts of nefarious things like distributing child porn, hacking, and, worst of all, stealing intellectual property (or “downloading”)!