Linking to copyrighted content not illegal, rules EU court - Polidicks

[quote][B]Websites can link to freely available content without the permission of the copyright holder, the European Court of Justice says.[/quote] [/B][IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72991000/jpg/_72991205_72991204.jpg[/IMG] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26187730[/url]

Finally, can link to all the porn on redtube.

Imagine the can of fuckery it would've opened if they ruled it was illegal.

So warez rule of facepunch is going down :v:?

[QUOTE=Mitchel.;43920317]So warez rule of facepunch is going down :v:?[/QUOTE] Seeing as how Britain likes to throw a shitfit whenever the EU rules one way or the other, I doubt it.

[QUOTE=Mitchel.;43920317]So warez rule of facepunch is going down :v:?[/QUOTE] I think the servers of FP are based in America so I doubt so.

[QUOTE=Genericenemy;43920330]I think the servers of FP are based in America so I doubt so.[/QUOTE] Ssshh...[sp]Nobody knows[/sp]

[QUOTE=Genericenemy;43920330]I think the servers of FP are based in America so I doubt so.[/QUOTE] Thought FP servers were based in the UK?

Forum rules =/= law. It's not against the law to post meme replies, but you still get banned for them. Won't change shit.

[QUOTE=Mitchel.;43920317]So warez rule of facepunch is going down :v:?[/QUOTE] "freely available content" not copyrighted material you are supposed to pay for..

[QUOTE=Morgen;43920431]"freely available content" not copyrighted material you are supposed to pay for..[/QUOTE] Hang on, you're still linking to copyrighted content, whats the difference? If it doesn't mean things like that then what kind of copyrighted content are they allowing you to link to? Not saying facepunch should allow it at all, I'm just confused as to how they are different.

[QUOTE=Frustration96;43920537]Hang on, you're still linking to copyrighted content, whats the difference? If it doesn't mean things like that then what kind of copyrighted content are they allowing you to link to? Not saying facepunch should allow it at all, I'm just confused as to how they are different.[/QUOTE] In the article it states that the court only ruled that it wasn't illegal to link to copyrighted content that the author had published in a place where it was freely available. I don't believe that Burnout.Paradise.Xbox.megafag60.rar is entirely a freely available thing published by the authors of that copyrighted material.

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;43921959]I don't think most of the people here have read the article but their results basically mentions that you can post whatever in the News Node without news companies suing garry (again)[/QUOTE] Not exactly. This only applies to the EU, and might not even apply everywhere in the EU at all.

[QUOTE=acds;43920388]Forum rules =/= law. It's not against the law to post meme replies, but you still get banned for them. Won't change shit.[/QUOTE] Yeah but I thought the point of the no warez rule was to avoid getting Facepunch in trouble.

[quote]In a statement it said: "The owner of a website may, without the authorisation of the copyright holders, redirect internet users, via hyperlinks, to protected works available on a freely accessible basis on another site." But they ruled that the "position would be different" if a link led users to material that had purposely been restricted from being freely available - for example if it had been posted on a site that operates a paywall.[/quote] Thinking about it, does this ruling have any influence on torrent stuff? At the end of the day when simplified, something like a magnet link is just a hyperlink to P2P content, but that second part implies that if there was DRM or some kind of restriction it'd still be illegal

[QUOTE=acds;43920388]Forum rules =/= law. It's not against the law to post meme replies, but you still get banned for them. Won't change shit.[/QUOTE] It's reasonable to assume that rule against warez is in place because of law. But more likely the reason for it is potential lawsuits.

[QUOTE=Mitchel.;43920317]So warez rule of facepunch is going down :v:?[/QUOTE] Most likely not. I believe the rule was put in place to keep this website off the radar of anti-piracy watchdogs and so this doesn't become a place where people join just to talk about it

[QUOTE=Mitchel.;43920317]So warez rule of facepunch is going down :v:?[/QUOTE] Facepunch obeys the law of Garry, not the law of some country.

[QUOTE=leach139;43922151]Thinking about it, does this ruling have any influence on torrent stuff? At the end of the day when simplified, something like a magnet link is just a hyperlink to P2P content, but that second part implies that if there was DRM or some kind of restriction it'd still be illegal[/QUOTE] By those rules it's legal to link to torrents but illegal to download them. The torrents are freely available, not behind a paywall, just simply linking to them is ok, but the act of actually downloading the content that is otherwise behind a paywall is illegal.

I think a great example of this would be that Facepunch can legally link to shitty drawings from DeviantArt without worrying that the shitty artists will come and claim they can't post their art.

[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;43922958]Facepunch obeys the law of Garry, not the law of some country.[/QUOTE] i thought garry [I]was [/I]a country

So if Britain is still part of the EU, does that mean they have to drop the extradition against that one guy who ran the linking site?

[QUOTE=Genericenemy;43920330]I think the servers of FP are based in America so I doubt so.[/QUOTE] Facepunch runs in the butt.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;43920375]Thought FP servers were based in the UK?[/QUOTE] AFAIK they're hosted on a bunch of Amazon EC2 nodes

So this means Piratebay is safe?

Does this mean we can start posting the whole article in SH again?

Pirated copies of Garry's Mod for everyone!

[QUOTE=Forumaster;43927525]Does this mean we can start posting the whole article in SH again?[/QUOTE] That's actually a really good question.