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Kazaa Ruled Legal in The Netherlands

Posted by michael on from the good-place-to-start-a-business dept.

DreamerFi writes "Developers of Kazaa cannot be held liable for the way people use their software, the Dutch Supreme Court has ruled. The dutch version of the RIAA, BUMA Stemra is now expected to start lawsuits against individuals, following the american lead, according to dutch news channels."

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  1. Re:This is the way it should be!!!!!!!! by dajak · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Already sue the individuals? Why don't they try suing the ISPs, hard disk manufacturers, CD burner manufacturers, CD manufacturers etc. first for making these criminal networks possible in the first place? They can even sue Microsoft for its mediaplayer!

    This is a textbook example of sine qua non causality: without memory storage devices illegal copying of music would be impossible!

    Compare that to guns: people were killed even before the existence of guns, even though it was messy and risky thing to do. Even obesity is older than McDonalds!