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Australian Court says Kazaa Users Breach Copyright

Posted by Hemos on from the not-surprising-ruling-at-this-point dept.

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"

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  1. Ban file-sharing? What about libraries? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Some percentage, unknown to me, of files shared on file sharing networks are copyrighted. This may mean (hypothetically) that those who created these works are not rightfully rewarded for their work, which of course is a Very Bad Thing.

    All books in a library, more or less, are copyrighted. They are initially bought, but then the information, the whole of their content, is shared with countless people, which pay little or none in order to aquire this information, and if any money is exchanged, then it does not go to the copyright holders (correct me if I'm wrong).

    So, aren't libraries basically analogous to file-sharing networks (or vice versa)? What am I missing?

  2. Re:So that means... by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    1) The NRA defence of "guns don't kill people, people kill people" is now dead

    Guns don't kill people, ethnic minorities do.

    Thank you south park!

    Tom

    [Yes, I'm kiddin]

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