Norwegian Student Ordered to Pay for Hyperlinks to Music

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Norwegian Student Ordered to Pay for Hyperlinks to Music

Posted by michael on Friday January 28, 2005 @05:10AM from the aiding-and-abetting dept.

Stephan writes "The AP reports that Norway's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a student whose Napster.no homepage (no relation to the U.S. Napster, apparently) had links to free Internet music files must compensate the music industry. The around 170 links to mp3s will cost its creator $15,900. In a summary of its ruling, the supreme court said the music was clearly published in violation of copyright law. An unofficial English translation of the Court of Appeal decision (earlier in the case) provided by the lawyer of the defendant and more information on the case can be found at the Links & Law Website."

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To be fair by Spoonito · 2005-01-28 05:15 · Score: 5, Funny

The song he hyperlinked was "bjorgen bjorgen fjorgen djorgen," which everyone knows is the best song on the album and the rest is just filler.

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1. Re:To be fair by M3rk1n_Muffl3y · 2005-01-28 05:18 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  You obviously know nothing about proper music.
  
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My neighbor... by GillBates0 · 2005-01-28 05:18 · Score: 4, Funny

sings copyrighted music (usually the Brittany Spears classics) in the bathroom during the morning hours.
Can we fine him for copyright infringement or have him put away for a while? Pretty please??

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1. Re:My neighbor... by cephyn · 2005-01-28 05:35 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  no, but now that you've told me where to get pirated music, you could be fined.
  
  If you're in norway.
  
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An unofficial... by Tackhead · 2005-01-28 05:22 · Score: 1, Funny

> An unofficial English translation of the Court of Appeal decision (earlier in the case) provided by the lawyer of the defendant and more information on the case can be found at the Links & Law Website."
In other news, linksandlaw.com sued by the Clerk of the Norwegian Supreme Court for $1,337,455 dollars in translastion fees and $45,570,534 in court transcription fees following Slashdot effect.
I'd link to that other news, but I can't afford to.
Re:One Expensive Song by madaxe42 · 2005-01-28 05:22 · Score: 1, Funny

He's in norway. Do you know how much it costs to hire a carrier pigeon to fly that far?
Re:Erm? by dapyx · 2005-01-28 05:30 · Score: 1, Funny

Slashdot should be made legally responsible for making thousand of people watch goatse.cx!!! :-)

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Re:apparantly he doesn't watch... by Spoonito · 2005-01-28 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny

"Last night's episode on The Disney Channel, showed how our hero Kim resisted peer pressure to download music without paying for it."

I didn't see it. Anyone have a torrent of it?

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Re:He only gave LINKS by Thud457 · 2005-01-28 05:42 · Score: 1, Funny

Hey, at least it'll cut down on the dupes...

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Re:apparantly he doesn't watch... by jephthah · 2005-01-28 05:50 · Score: 5, Funny

yeah, lemme post a link for you. I have torrents of all the Disn
Re:Insanity by myukew · 2005-01-28 05:56 · Score: 2, Funny

so non linked text is ok? like http://g3tstuff.net/f1l3z.mp3 ?

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