Ways You Might Be Breaking the Law (With Your Tech)
14. Linking to Illegal Material
Linking is the raison d'être of the Internet -- what makes it a worldwide Web instead of a worldwide strand. But linking to some sites -- those hosting illegal material -- can in itself be illegal. In 2001, for example, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals barred 2600 Magazine ("The Hacker Quarterly") from linking to sites that posted the DeCSS code for breaking the copy protection on DVDs (which violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, see "6. Making DRM DOA").
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billdaly111 said 9:15PM on 5-07-2009
I am incredibly angry AOL would hire someone who doesn't know anything about computer litigation to write an article about computer litigation! "But linking to some site...those hosting illegal material...can in itself be illegal." WRONG!!!!! It is not illegal to make a link on a webpage to copyrighted content, no matter how wrong it is!!! This is why there are thousands of websites with links to copyrighted content and they never get taken down! Simply because we want to believe something is illegal and subject it to superficial laws that don't exist, doesn't mean you can prosecute it anyway you please!
It's ONLY ILLEGAL to host copyrighted content on a server without permission, not to point to the file, but to actually be in possession of the copyrighted content!
Think I'm lying, read it for yourself in the DMCA....see you actually have to read these things before making assumptions or you'll make the first 3 letters of the word assumption out of yourself everytime Sean Captain....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
Where it says... "Linking to infringing content"...
it states...There have been no cases in the US where a website owner has been found liable for linking to copyrighted material outside of the above narrow circumstances.... Go there and read more dummy!
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