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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. Re:Linking can be taken to several levels by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    six degrees of kevin bacon?

    ARRRGARRRG

    I'm sure I'm at least 20 hops from those F.A.G. members.

    Tom

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  2. Re:lovely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    allofmp3 is good if you like nigger-pop.

    You racist cunt.

  3. Re:yawn by koi88 · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Napster did the same thing. Is this supposed to be new and interesting because it happened in Australia?

    Yeah, I mean, one word: cangaroos. And those teddy-bear like creatures. And crocodiles. And this accent. Gives a hole new touch to the story, don't you think?

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  4. Re:lovely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You sexist pig .

    You bovinist clod.

  5. Don't ever buy a record again. by tjstork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's plenty of things to do in life besides support a music industry. Screw all the labels. I haven't bought a CD in two years and still find plenty of ways to get into mischief without music. There's always radio.

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  6. Re:Eh? by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hi, phil, I knew it was you by the spellin mistake ;-)

    Tom

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  7. Re:If he was running windows by wheany · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, only two posts and already we're making fun of Windows?.

    LOL TAHT MICRO$OFT WINBLOWS SURE DOES BLOW!