Big Music’s ‘darkest day’
p2pnet.net News:- The operator of Taiwan’s Ezpeer p2p file sharing application isn’t guilty of infringing intellectual property rights, a local court has decided.
“In the nation’s first ruling on file-sharing cases, the court found that Weber Wu, president of Ezpeer – which provides a for-fee platform for subscribers to swap files – did not engage in reproducing or publicly distributing works of copyright holders,” says the Taipei Times.
“The court also said that current laws and regulations do not specifically ban or limit file-sharing activities.”
Behind the case was the Big Music cartel’s IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).
"This is the darkest day for the music industry," Robin Lee, the IFPI’s Man in Taiwan said dramatically.
"We will appeal to the end."
(Thanks, Robert)
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Taipei Times – Ezpeer found not guilty in landmark copyright verdict, July 1, 2005
security flaws – RealNetworks danger warning, p2pnet, June 24, 2005
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July 1st, 2005 at 3:59 pm
here’s hoping for dark days.
July 1st, 2005 at 3:59 pm
May the darkness be all-consuming and eternal.
July 1st, 2005 at 8:42 pm
How about we set up a world wide holiday to celebrate such events as these? It is with successes such as this that show the cartel it doesn’t rule the world and it won’t continually get its way. I am appalled at the US and it’s rulings to attempt to prop up the old model and the “rights” it has stolen from its citizens in the process.
Truly, the dinosaur needs to finish the process of keeling over…
July 1st, 2005 at 11:19 pm
now all we need are sane courts like that here in the usa