Supreme Court Declines to Hear Aimster File-Sharing Case

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 13, 2004 - 3:40am.

Washington -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from defunct file-sharing site Aimster (now known as Madster), which is now out of legal options and will remain shut down permanently. The site was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2001 for copyright infringement, and shut down per order of federal court injunction in December 2002. An appeal to the 7th Circuit Court was turned down in June 2003. The company, whose software piggybacked on America Online's instant messaging software, was also forced to change its name to Madster after AOL sued for trademark infringement.
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