BitTorrent programmer Bram Cohen may be in legal jeopardy after the discovery on Wednesday of an old agenda buried on his website saying he creates programs to “commit digital piracy.”
The polemic would have been of little interest a week ago. But on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the intent behind a file-sharing program can be a decisive factor in determining whether the creator can be sued for its users’ copyright infringement.
Ouch, that seems pretty careless. He claims it was more of a joke that he wrote a long time ago.. chances are if it were otherwise it would not have been there. You can get more info over at Wired.