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EFA Claims No Illegal Material On mp3s4free.net
An anonymous reader writes "Electronic Frontiers Australia (www.efa.org.au) claims that the raids organized by the music industry on mp3s4free.net have come up with nothing. Only links to other sites and not copyrighted material have been found.
The music industry is now saying that just
linking is in itself illegal. This does not appear to be supported by Australian law." Update: 10/29 15:26 GMT by T : This story originally referred to "mp3s4free.com," while it should have said -- and has been corrected to read -- "mp3s4free.net."
Surely this is like hosting a list of places you can buy illicit drugs. You do not actually possess said drugs, but you are party and complicit in assisting access to illegal materials.
By the letter of the law they may be correct in claiming a high ground, but morally, you are as guilty as someone who stands in front of a junior school with a list of crack houses and hand them out to the kids, then claims he was doing nothing wrong as he didn't posses the drugs.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!
Yeah right. There are SOO many public and free MP3s that the general public wants. The public wants crap. Preferably new crap produced by this months new crapband. I will do an experiment to prove how false this assumption that there are legally downloadable MP3s that people wants. In a couple of years the copyright for all the great recordings of RobertJonson will expire and it will be possible to legally put his great recordings on the web. When the copyrights for his great music expires I will rip all my RobertJonson albums and put the MP3s on the web. Lets see how many people would like to donwload those.
"MP3s, WMDs, it's all the same..."
B[censored]t, MP3s exist.