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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. So..... by BaudKarma · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does this mean they can sue Google, since Google links to pretty much everything? I'm gure Google has a lot more money then some spare guy in Australia.

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  2. are they gonna sue google next? by lakker · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hmmm... ok, so google indexes a site with pirated files, I search for it and google returns a page with links to these files! That lawsuit just made every search engine out there illegal (hehehe... including msn:)

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