p2pnet.net News:- Big Four record label cartel ‘evidence’ against Stephen Cooper, an alleged p2p copyright infringer in Australia, actually proves his innocence, says Tinfoil.

Cooper, webmaster of the MP3s4free.net download site, is in court in Sydney, Australia, with the record industry claiming he dished out hundreds of millions of songs illegally, states the site.

MP3s4free.net racked up some pretty impressive traffic figures, according to MIPI, to wit:

1.97 terabytes and 191,296,511 hits from November ‘02 to October ‘03.

"The org contends that the bulk of the traffic was illegal MP3s, though according to this writer’s rough math, MIPI is way off base," says Tinfoil.

"You see, 1.97TB (where 1TB is 1024GB) is 2.166e12 bytes. Now, divide that by the number of hits and you get 11,322 bytes per hit, or 11KB. That’s hardly enough to download an MP3 at an average size of 3MB."

In the meanwhile, "The distribution occurred on a massive scale, which was made possible by the power and reach of the Internet," says John Nicholas, lead council. "The scale of copyright infringement that occurred via the MP34free Web site is unprecedented in Australia for an Internet Web site of this kind."

Anthony Morris, Cooper’s lead attorney, says Cooper did no more than to link to files on other websites.

"He has done nothing that Google or Yahoo hasn’t … he provided a directory for certain types of content," Morris said. "He only provided a hyperlink."

The basic math shown above says there’s is no way MP3s4free.net could have distributed more than 191 million songs, says Tinfoil, adding:

"At most he could have distributed 688,565 songs, and that ignores any traffic from the site itself. No, that’s just not right. Average size of a webpage and included graphic files is easily 11KB, so the traffic figures quoted by MIPI firmly go against what they allege and pretty much prove Cooper innocent of all charges."

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See:-

his innocence – MP3s4free.net in Court. Lawyer Looses Calculator, Tinfoil, October 26, 2004

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