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EFA Claims No Illegal Material On mp3s4free.net

Posted by timothy on from the bullies-like-what-they-do dept.

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."

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  1. The linking is in itself illegal? by Empiric · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes! Google, I have you now...

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  2. The more things change... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny


    > 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...

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  3. They found NOTHING? Then they ARE guilty! by Tsar · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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?

  4. Re:Linking should and shouldn't be illegal by flamingmoose · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Freddie the Knife", "Guido the Strangler", etc

    You left out Jack the Ripper. Both a dangerous killer AND a distributor of illegaly encoded music.

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