DeCSS Song Taken Down From MP3.com
from the silly-decisions dept
A few weeks back we posted a story about the DeCSS song and I joked that this might now make Techdirt illegal. Apparently, MP3.com (which I'm not sure has the right to claim moral superiority when it comes to protecting copyrights) has removed that song from their servers. I think that's just stupid. They didn't make it clear if anyone had asked them to remove it, and I doubt anyone did (though that would be an interesting story as well). So, that would mean they just decided the song was potentially illegal and thus removed. I see a can of worms opening...
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