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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. This is retarded... by advocate_one · · Score: 5, Insightful

    to put it politely... just too stupid for words... how, exactly, did he "pirate" the works in question??? Looks like we need to slap some judges upside the head with a cluestick... Google et al, had better watch out... they'll now have to filter out possible copyrighted works in any links produced in searches... this is a very dangerours legal ruling.

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  2. Re:Eh? by tomstdenis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It makes perfect sense. The only reason you can't see it is you think the citizens are more important than the corporations.

    Sad really.

    Tom

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  3. Re:Allegedly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If he was found guilty, then the charges are proven. They are no longer alleged.

    Err... the charges are proven from the court's perspective. The submitter apparently doesn't agree with the court, and so for him/her the charges are still alleged.