Big Music nails Norway student
p2pnet.net News:- A Norwegian school project p2p site that was online for four months in 2001, offering links to around 170 mp3s on servers outside the country, will cost its creator $15,900, thanks to the Big Music cartel.
It’s all a matter of principal, say the cartel’s Tono, Sony Music Entertainment Norway AS, Universal Music AS, “and others,” according to the Associated Press, which goes on that a student set up Napster.no as part of a school project in 2001. His page had nothing do the other Napster.
Tono & Co claimed copyright infringement. A lower court found for them, but a court in Oslo cleared the student, saying any copyright violation occurred when others posted the music and not when he provided links to it.
Norway’s supreme court, however, ruled the student broke the law by showing people where to find the “illegal” mp3s and that his actions were, “premeditated and worthy of criticism,” says AP.
He’ll now have to find $15,900 to pay Big Music by way of “compensation”.
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$15,900 – Norway court upholds Napster conviction, Associated Press, January 26, 2005
January 27th, 2005 at 11:08 pm
let’s not overdo it
January 27th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
I think someone should use the “you better sue yahoo and google now, too” argument soon.
I hope they appeal this idiocy.
January 27th, 2005 at 11:23 pm
Typo. Fixed : )
Cheers!
January 28th, 2005 at 1:35 am
Is there a higher court then the supreme court in norway? If not i don’t how could appeal. Isn’t this the same court that cleard the maker of decss that copy dvds go figure
January 28th, 2005 at 3:48 am
Not only Google and Yahoo but look at all the rest of the web sites that have ads for filesharing services!!!!
January 28th, 2005 at 3:50 am
When did the INDUCE ACT get passed ???????Hmmmmmmmmmm
January 28th, 2005 at 3:52 am
Norway a country after the Heart of Orin Hatch!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 28th, 2005 at 7:02 am
There is no higher court than the supreme court in Norway. And yes, it’s the same court that gave us the decss-ruling.
January 29th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
Clearly, they seem to think that file sharing is a crime beyond murder and worse. It is unheard of (or at least very rare) that any car manufacturer would be taken to court/sued because a driver killed or maimed people, even if the drivers intent was deliberate. On the same notion an Alcoholic Beverage manufacturer or Bar is not taken to court for supplying Alcohol to a drink driver, knowing that they had the possible intent of breaking the law. Even further, a gun manufacturer is rarely taken to court when one of their firearms was used to kill or injure a person, when it is clear knowledge to all concerned that their weapons are used on an everyday basis to kill or injure people (a use that is clearly evident by the contracts and use by police forces around the world). So, WHY in hells name can anybody attribute a link on a web-site to assisting with a crime, they are all identical in that they are all tools that assist in commiting crime, and with the suppliers all knowing that the user may possibly commit a crime with their “product”. I mean you can conceivably commit a crime with ANYTHING, but it doesn’t mean everybody gets sued (well, except in America!). I guess it’s simply a matter of money … the little man seems to be powerless… Suggestion, how about a “P2P Suing Network” where alone we are powerless but combined we can take on these f’ing big corps? $1 a month each from the millions of P2P users, would go a long way to battle these sorts of cases.
January 29th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Unfortunately these scumy record companies would just treat such a fund as another source of income. Income they don’t deserve. The only way to fight the cartel is to stop buying their products. Kill the root and the weed stays away.