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Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking

Posted by Zonk on from the dark-day-for-the-rebellion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Major record labels are celebrating in Sydney, Australia today. It took almost two years but they've finally won a legal battle against a Queensland man and his ISP for alleged music piracy. Amazingly, Stephen Cooper didn't even have to host the alleged pirated files. All he did (allegedly) was to hyperlink to a few sites that had infringing sound recordings. His ISP didn't escape either. Even the ISP's parent company got sued. No jail time but all parties will have to pay costs."

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  1. If he was running windows by farker+haiku · · Score: 5, Funny

    It should be hard to prove he did it... I mean, his machine could have been compromised

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    1. Re:If he was running windows by ObiWanKenblowme · · Score: 5, Funny

      Windows will even warn you if your machine has committed an illegal operation and shut it down for you - that's how good it is.

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    2. Re:If he was running windows by Harangutan0n · · Score: 4, Funny

      When I was 11 or 12, my grandmother picked up a copy of Windows 95 for us the day it came out. She must have read about it in the paper, or something, because to this day, neither she nor my grandfather has even been able to figure out how to play Solitare, much less check email, despite my best efforts to tutor them.

      I had great fun, playing around with this pretty new interface. It was quite a step up from programming LogoWriter on our Apple IIGS (we had that computer for quite a while). But my tomfoolery didn't last too long, because I eventually made the computer do an illegal operation, which shut it down.

      I freaked out, because I thought I had broken the law and someone was going to come arrest me. Oh Windows 95, how you let me down!

      (this is just after I had gotten busted by the Man for burning down a Port-a-Potty (it was an accident, I swear), so I was a bit skittish about such things)

  2. In other news.... by dr_labrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    A man in Queensland was found guilty of pointing at a stolen car in the street....

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