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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. 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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