Aimster CEO Appeals Copyright Ruling to U.S. Supreme Court

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 11, 2003 - 7:50am.

Albany, N.Y. -- The CEO of Aimster, a file-sharing service that once piggybacked on AOL's instant messaging software and was shut down via a lawsuit and injunction from the major record labels, has filed an appeal of the lost copyright ruling with the U.S. Supreme Court. The appeal, which attempts to illustrate some of the file-sharing service's non-infringing uses, was filed by Aimster (now Madster) CEO John Deep on Oct. 28; the Court is expected to decide whether or not to hear the case by Dec. 3. "Right now there is some skepticism about whether or not the Supreme Court will take this case, which I do not share," Deep told U.K. news site TheRegister. "I am asking that it be expedited because of the nature of the injunctions against the service."
http://www.internet-defense.org
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33902.html
http://www.madster.com