On 6/28/11 8:31 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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Here's the misleading part of the Guardian article [1]:
"The (computer) server was not based in the US at all," O'Dwyer's
barrister, Ben Cooper, who has also been heavily involved in the
McKinnon case, told Tuesday's hearing at Westminster magistrates
court. "Mr O'Dwyer did not have copyrighted material on his website;
_he simply provided a link_. The essential contention is that the
correct forum for this trial is in fact here in Britain, where he
was at all times."
Some experts on digital law question whether _providing links to
illegal downloads rather than directly hosting them_ would even
constitute an offence in the UK. In February last year charges
involving fraud and copyright against a similar site, TV-Links, were
dismissed after a judge ruled that linking alone was not illegal.
(emphasis added)
So the _three_-way distinction, between linking/embedding/hosting, is
just not understood. . .
ht
[1]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jun/17/student-file-sharing-tvshack-extradition
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Henry,
I am copying in the LOD mailing list as this is quite important and
ultimately bring clarity to a confusing matter, even in the Linked Data
realm.
Links are Links i.e, reference.
The Name and Address matter continues to charge on. Referring to
something by Name is not the same thing as making a New Address for a
Resource. When you make New Resource Addresses (or Locators) where the
"authority" part is changed, you open up vulnerabilities of the kind
expressed in the misledaing Guardian article.
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
President& CEO
OpenLink Software
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
