Comments on: Grokster Website https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/09/grokster_websit.htm Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Eric R. https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/09/grokster_websit.htm#comment-442 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:25:58 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/09/grokster_websit.htm#comment-442 “The United States Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that using this service to trade copyrighted material is illegal.”

Um . . . in what case did that happen?

]]> By: Michael Zimmer https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/09/grokster_websit.htm#comment-441 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:29:41 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/09/grokster_websit.htm#comment-441 Hilarious. Here’s the registry info for who owns that domain now – wonder who is actually making these threats…

Domain Name: GROKSTER.COM

Registrar: TUCOWS INC.

Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net

Referral URL: http://domainhelp.tucows.com

Name Server: NS2.EV1SERVERS.NET

Name Server: NS1.EV1SERVERS.NET

Status: ACTIVE

EPP Status: ok

Updated Date: 04-Sep-2006

Creation Date: 21-Dec-1999

Expiration Date: 21-Dec-2006

]]> By: michaelzimmer.org https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/09/grokster_websit.htm#comment-443 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:13:23 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/09/grokster_websit.htm#comment-443 Grokster Site Warning Visitors, Collecting IPs

Eric Goldman recently visited Grokster’s website at http://www.grokster.com and got the following stern warning:

The United States Supreme Court unanimously confirmed

that using this service to trade copyrighted material is illegal.

Copying copyrighted…

]]> By: Fred von Lohmann https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/09/grokster_websit.htm#comment-440 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:30:16 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/09/grokster_websit.htm#comment-440 Actually, both the Grokster and eDonkey sites are now good mechanisms for determining what your IP address is, much like whatsmyip.org. A service like this is useful for a variety of network admin tasks. It would be mighty amusing if people just started using these sites for this service — all too fitting to have the RIAA pay for the bandwidth for network admin services.

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