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Faced with potential legal action, Harvard alum Sam A. Yagan ’99 announced at a Senate hearing last Wednesday that he will no longer allow unrestricted file-sharing using his company’s software...
...Yagan, who is the president of MetaMachine—a company that distributes the peer-to-peer program, eDonkey—testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he is working with recording companies on ways to make file-sharing legal with eDonkey...
...Sept. 13, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) began a letter-writing campaign aimed at seven of the largest file-sharing companies, including MetaMachine, which set the stage for a large-scale litigation process. Yagan cited this correspondence and high legal costs as the major motivation for his move to privatization...
...Yagan maintains that his company never violated any copyright laws. According to the current interpretation of the law established by the recent Supreme Court decision MGM v. Grokster, it is not illegal to sell file sharing software. Rather, it is against the law to encourage illegal downloads...
...have a vision in my mind of students discussing competing curricular revisions over dinner, staying up at night pondering the purpose of their own Harvard educations,” Yagan said...