Court: AOL can't distribute version 6.0
C|Net | at | by Mike
I take personal satisfaction every time shit happens to AOL :) Finally put end to those annoying AOL-CD.
A federal judge has ordered America Online to temporarily stop distributing a recent version of its popular service, AOL 6.0, saying the software likely violates copyrights for computer code used to play back MP3 files. If upheld, the ruling could force the AOL Time Warner division to pay millions of dollars in damages, marketing expenses, and costs related to retrieving or altering existing copies of AOL 6.0. At issue is software copyrights owned by PlayMedia Systems. AOL subsidiary Nullsoft holds a software license from PlayMedia for use in its Winamp MP3 player, but the court found AOL may have gone too far by including the code in a different media player bundled with AOL 6.0. According to the decision, the agreement limited Nullsoft's right to use the software "within Winamp."