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Australian Court says Kazaa Users Breach Copyright
mferrare writes "This from Reuters UK: An Australian court ruled on Monday that users of Kazaa, a popular internet music file-swapping system, breached music copyright and ordered its owners to modify the software. The music industry told the court that Sharman Network licensed users to access a network it knew was being used for piracy and hence it was authorising people to infringe copyright"
Come on now. Kazaa "authorized" them to do it (according to the article). This is a little like prosecuting people who claim the devil made them do it. We think they're insane; not criminals.
... but even so, can one criminally download anything? Hmmmmmmm ... ? Afterall, it is all there just for the taking on Kazaa ... offered for free. Hell, Kazaa is FFFRRREEEEEEEE!!!!
Well, maybe criminally insane
Just like Robin Hood and his merry band. Were the starving of England criminals because they ate the King's food and drank the King's wine, all approppriated by Robin Hood's valiant hoarde?
We the people are starving for entertainment. The world is a shambles. We need a little fantasy. Kazaa gives people something to do. Don't prosecute them.
My brother with designer jeans and a iriver mp3 player, modernly dressed went to Australia, Adeliade to visit a friend of him.
The guy he visits is Italian-Australian and waits for him outside.
They kept him 2 hours without any explanation. He says he felt like a jew trying to enter Germany in 1939.
FYI, he is a turkish guy. Remember Al Queda blew us 2 times, not we blew anything.
Australian courts should start discussing what can be done to avoid such racist things, not about a fucking spyware and its so called freedom of information.