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illegal is not terribly surprising, even if it’s a potentially flawed decision. But as Declan McCullagh wrote in a Wired News article called Only News That’s Fit to Link, that the judge went as far as saying that links to the download sites are illegal is way over the line, for me. The DMCA suggests that ruling, for sure. But the only thing I’m left with is that the DMCA is trying to treat copyrights like drugs – with trafficking, and (more tenuously) seeming to support trafficking (whether true or not) considered to be equivalent to doing the infringement in the first place.

At least Emmanuel Goldstein (aka Eric Corley) has approached it with some cheek and confronted the craziness of the issue… he left the addresses, only in text format, not as links.