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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apparantly he doesn't watch... by jephthah · 2005-01-28 05:16 · Score: 5, Interesting

...Kim Possible

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

Kim told her new friend that she "wasn't afraid, she just knew the difference between right and wrong".

Way to go Disney! Being pro-active and teaching our children to repect the RIAA.