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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. Apparently there is an... by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Angel of Haarlem..... U2
    (But don't download it you devils)

  2. zeokmp3.nl? by Agilo · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's zoekmp3.nl. Typo. :)

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  3. 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!

  4. Re:Good news for Google! by 0x0d0a · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If he moves Google from the US to the Netherlands, yes.

    Actually, basing Internet companies in the Netherlands seems to make an awful lot of sense. It's a first-world country, they have relatively permissive laws, and a dense population. Since you're right in the middle of Europe, bandwidth isn't expensive. If you can operate your company anywhere in the world (as is quite possible for a .com), it would seem like countries will start needing to compete for companies.

    Not sure how nasty business taxes are, and there's obviously a host of other variables involved, but...

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