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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."
Yes! Google, I have you now...
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
> Electronic Frontiers Australia (www.efa.org.au) claims that the raids organized by the music industry on mp3s4free.com 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.
MP3s, WMDs, it's all the same...
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
The problem with analogies is they are very seldom correct.
It is legal to walk down the street listening and singing to Britney Spears.
It is not legal to walk down the street listening and singing while taking LCD.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
It is what you get when you crush the screen on your cellphone and snort it up a rolled up $20 note ;-)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!
Guy: Hey man, do you know where the drug dealers on this block are?
Me: Um, there's a sketchy guy that hangs out on the corner over there who might know about it.
Cop: FREEZE!! You're under arrest for drug dealing!
Me: Damn you DMCA! Now I'm a drug dealer cause I know where the sketchy people hang out!
You posted the link to the web page that has links to illegal material!
And as it has been proven that on the web everything is within 10 clicks - you all guys are under arrest for linking to links to links to links to links to links to links to links to links to links to links that point to the illegal material!
"Electronic Frontiers Australia (www.efa.org.au) claims that the raids organized by the music industry on mp3s4free.com have come up with nothing."
How much nothing did they find? No matter--whether it was 4 minutes 33 seconds or only a minute, nothing is still a copyright violation, and John Cage's publishers will have something to say about the nothing that was found!
The question is, how do you remove it?
So when Bush said Iraq had WMDs, he really meant to say that they LINKED to WMDs... :-p
Taking liquid crystal display? How does one go about that...
Simple, slice open your laptop screen and lick the stuff that oozes out.
It is a liquid after all
"It is legal to walk down the street listening and singing to Britney Spears."
No, this is the problem.
I believe you mean LSD, d-lysergic acid diethylamide also known as acid, and not LCD which commonly refers to a liquid crystal display.
You mean you've never tried 17-inch Apple Studio Display? That shit will mess you up.
Don't even get me started on 23-inch Apple Cinema Display. That's some 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' material right there. Bat country and everything.
I have a copy of that CD. Fortunately, the track to which you're referring is of hip-hop silence, which contains a two-second sample of Cage's original 4'33" repeated many times.
Listen to it again and you'll agree that the first two seconds sound exactly the same as the next two seconds, and so on. Actually, I'm surprised you didn't notice it before!
Him? He's harmless. Back in the '60s he was part of the peace movement at Berkeley. I think he did a little too much LDS
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
making fun of you.
" If you intend to stand at the corner of a school and get kids to buy crack by telling them to go to the store then it is illegal."
Uh, yeah, the CRACK STORE. That's where I buy all my crack. When I feel like some heroin, I go to the HEROIN STORE.
"If you tell them where to go buy ice cream ral cheap and it just so happens that the place also sells crack then it is not. Or at least that is what the founding fathers meant - which we have drifted quite a bit in the last 50 or so years from that."
I must have been asleep in civics class when the covered how Ice Cream fits into the Bill of Rights. Which amendment was that? The "right to bear double scoops" one, right?
"It is clear that the site was linking to copyrighted MP3 websites for the purpose of downloading them."
Is it clear? Wouldn't it be funny if you actually went to the site and found out it wasn't what you thought it was?
"(and not being a lawyer only what I understand it to be in the US, which could be wrong)"
At least you got that one right.
OK, I'm being mean. But just as I shouldn't be suprised by ill conceived posts like yours, you shouldn't be suprised by someone making fun.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Counter-sue? Press for indeminization...
"Freddie the Knife", "Guido the Strangler", etc
You left out Jack the Ripper. Both a dangerous killer AND a distributor of illegaly encoded music.
.sigs - is there anything they can't do?
"Surely this is like hosting a list of places you can buy illicit drugs."
Or publishing a dossier of countries in which you can find illegal weapons?
Ahem. (Best revival preacher's voice)
I think that it should be clear by now that the solution to the vast social problems of today is the internet. Where else do we have LINKS to Weapons of Mass Destruction? Where else to do we have nudity and violence galor? Were it not for the violation of our public decency caused by the intrusion of this vile satanic entity, the internet, we would be a peaceful people strong and secure in the bliss of ignorance.
Ignorance of the sins of the internet. The porn. The violence. The pedophiles sitting at their glowing screens temping the virginity of the children. Think of the children and the unlimited amount of smut, porn, nudity, violence, and crime that they are exposed to every single moment they are on the internet. The internet is everywhere. In your schools, in your homes, in cafes and parks, and in every businessplace in the world.
Yes, friends, we must petition our legislators to outlaw this vile corruption that has been visited upon us by the very forces of Hades; whose sole purpose is to consume the souls of our children and turn this blissfully ignorant world into a Hell on Earth.
I tell you now, brothers and sisters, that the root of all evil is money. And the internet's most profitable businesses are crimes against humanity: the violation of women and children who are hapless porn victims, the teenagers temped to steal billions from poor, starving musicians because that theft is merely a mouse click away. Click. Click. Click. Another poor musician starves to death.
We must empower the magnificent defenders of our blissful ignorance to protect us from these might forces of iniquity. The RIAA, The MPAA, our brothers in congress--yes children, you know the ones who share the views of our defenders; those tireless public servants who like the dearly departed Mr Sonny Bono-author of the copyright extension act that prevents Mickey Mouse from being turned into a vile star of pornography, crafted the DMCA, the COPA, and other valiant legislation. But we must have more. We must have an end to this internet thingy. Now. Before it is too late for our children.
Thank you and good night. Please donate heavily to our cause to protect our precious children.
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