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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. You have to dig pretty deep... by Cyb3r · · Score: -1, Troll

    You have to dig pretty deep in the law books to find that this is legal...

    Providing the links to the file is as bad as the files them selves if you ask me

    1. Re:You have to dig pretty deep... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      And they are.

      Sensible people would refuse to consider such obscene advertising.

      Stop being so lame, Amerika: your (lack of) gun laws kill more people than almost anything else. You can't show Janet Jackson's nipple of TV but you can go out, take in a Rambo movie, get drunk and buy a gun.

      Women around the world laugh at you. You're not real men. Either become responsible members of the global community or fade away.

  2. Re:Discrimenating!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Get it straight you clown! The french layed down for the Germans, practically aiding them, and it took the US to clean the Nazis out of Europe. Try reading a history textbook.

  3. Re:Good news for Google! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    a dense population.

    Enough of these racist slurs. The Dutch can be very smart, if you can find one who isn't drugged up.

  4. Mixed message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mark me as troll, whatever, but I want to know ... why is this touted as a great thing for our rights? They won on a technicality, while still effectively running a site that they *knew* was about copyright infringement with no innocent other means. So, why is this a good thing?