Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Linking to Pirated Content Illegal Down under...

According to an Australian court, linking to pirated mp3 content hosted elsewhere is illegal. Upholding a ruling from last summer, the ruling declared that Stephen Cooper, a retired policeman who ran the now-defunct site MP3s4free.net, and his ISP "[enabled] infringing copies of the downloaded sound recordings to be made." Cooper logged 7,081,899 unique visitors to his website in a little less than a year's time

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/80386

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