With the second amended complaint, we were able to add a complaint for vicarious infringement against AOL for the,development of the Gnutella file transfer protocol by its Nullsoft division. Gnutella is Napster without a central processing hub.,By setting up a “sting” operation, one of our investigators was able to track the infringement of several works by Harlan and,Isaac Asimov using Gnutella. This presents interesting issues regarding the responsibility for the release of software which,effectively pollutes the intellectual property environment. http://www.speculations.com/kick.htm