The word came down a few hours ago from a Federal Court judge: making files available in shared directories isn’t a violation of copyright.
Not a good week for the recording industry’s crackdown on its customers. A recent study contradicts the recording industry’s claim that music downloading is hurting sales. An Australian broadcaster dug deep into the stats in a news release from that country’s industry association, and discovered they were concealing their best year yet — as has the British industry. (Props to Ars Technica‘s always eagle-eyed correspondents.)
