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Dutch Portal Cleared of Copyright Infringement

Posted by michael on from the those-crazy-dutch dept.

CRCates writes "A Dutch court in Haarlem has cleared Techno Design, the operator of Zoekmp3.nl, a music search engine portal, of copyright infringement. The case was launched by BREIN, the Dutch entertainment industry's anti-piracy group. The court ruled that providing links to an MP3 file does not constitute disclosure or publication of contents under Dutch copyright law."

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  1. Re:You have to dig pretty deep... by c0dedude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By that logic the yellow pages is guilty of all gun crime, because they tell you where to get guns.

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    Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
  2. Good news for Dutch hosts by Bill_Royle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like Dutch webhosts are the most likely now to be the hosts for copyrighted mp3 sites, provided the mp3 files are held elsewhere. After all, if a website's having to change it's DNS every few weeks as it is booted from one host to the other, it makes sense to just host in a safe haven.

    Still, downloading Mp3's via links sounds so inefficient!