[NetBehaviour] Copyright ruling puts hyperlinking on notice.

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Copyright ruling puts hyperlinking on notice.

By Asher Moses.

A court ruling has given the recording industry the green light to go 
after individuals who link to material from their websites, blogs or 
MySpace pages that is protected by copyright.

A full bench of the Federal Court yesterday upheld an earlier ruling 
that Stephen Cooper, the operator of mp3s4free.net, as well as the 
internet service provider that hosted the website, were guilty of 
authorising copyright infringement because they provided a search engine 
through which a user could illegally download MP3 files.

The website did not directly host any copyright-protected music, but the 
court held that simply providing links to the material effectively 
authorised copyright infringement.

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