The world has officially gone mad!

nothing surprising there, the writing has been on the wall for a long time now, for those of us who run ed2k sites it´s really a simple choice..host your site in the anally retentive USA or European Union and get busted eventually even though you do nothing illegal or move to Asia, Canada or somewhere even more obscure and more tolerant and less funded by the RIAA and MPAA.

they're working on an appeal here in canada so don't count your chickens yet

I never count my hcickens you just have to be ready to move ahead of the times instead of with them and that means checking out the legal situation in any country where you rent a server.The fact that the law may change in the future isn´t a reason to stop renting a server in a country which permits it at the moment.

as technology moves forward stuff like this keeps happening. eventually we will be told when to breath, and every family will have a window of time for when there computer can be on. hopefully not in my lifetime...the government can kiss my pure white ***!!!

Whos for a ISP on the moon? just point your little reciever dish at sea of tranquility and your off.

So linking to any MP3 is illegal? What about linking to Ogg´s or other formats? Also illegal, most likely.

What about linking to MP3´s from independent artists who have given the public the permission to distribute their music? Illegal?

no as artist gave permission whereas others did not give permission

just sending my crime tip to fbi.gov on the great piracy organization known as www.google.com and www.archive.org... oopss... i guess i committed a crime already.

Does it not seem to everyone that these corporate media hogs are attempting to stir paranoia into the very hearts of people? Are you paranoid yet? I'm not.

You can't stop the wind from blowing. The internet is larger than any Corporation ever invented. You cannot squash P2P file-sharing no matter how many children you sue, or how many hostile threats of law suits you promise. You cannot stop global linking to mp3s whether direct, or 2nd party or 3rd/4th/nth-party. Big business has not learned their lesson yet. Big business is perpetually stupid.

I don't want to draw unfair analogies, but these Corporations seem to be indulging in the same terrorist strategies as the alQueda in Iraq. (No, really....)

If you are caught voting, you will be killed. (If you are caught downloading mp3 files you will be sued). If you are even spotted leaving a voting booth, you and your family will be killed. (If you link to an mp3, when we find you, we will sue you and your kids).

Sounds like Corporate terrorism to me!!!

Protect yourself everyone. Turn all your computers OFF right now, and don't ever visit another webpage. (Lock your doors, draw the shades, unplug the phone...)

Stoooooopid ..................

Recent history has taught us that for every single new restriction imposed on us by some corporation, there will be 1000 new resourseful, intelligent workarounds developed by the internet community to nullify it.

No..... they never learn.

the only way to stop that is to shut down the internet & i doubt that will happen as it will affect corporations as bad as the average individual

I suppose that this it the website of TONO: http://www.tono.no

It probably is useless, but you could mail them your opinion on this matter.

Why email them my opinion when I can just email them some mp3 links? =|

A_Klingon I totally agree with you. How naive of them!

Thank you! :-)

In my mind's-eye I can 'see' all these executive big-sh### sitting around the corporate back-boardrooms smoking Cuban cigars, sipping cognacs dreaming up all this crap to cause hardship on a select few in an attempt to justify their 6-figure salaries, 3-BMW homes, and private mistresses. But you wanna know a little secret, skan? Shhhhh.... this is just a secret between us here.....

Not only have they lost, they *know* they have lost. What's more, they have known it for years.

Just don't expect them to admit it to anyone. My comment that the internet is larger than any Corporation ever invented is proven true every day as more and more paid media-download services go online. Are the Global Record Companies "embracing new opportunities on the internet" ? Hell, NO! THEY'RE SUCKING-UP TO IT. (To you and me). WE are bigger than any of them! (And a lot more handsome, too).