Music for free?!? That's criminal!
Remember my recent post about The Piano Society where you can legally get free mp3's of classical music? The idea is that pianists want to advertise themselves and so they put some of their performances online for free download.
Unfortunately, Swedish police worked out that a lot of mp3s where coming from these web servers and nobody seemed to be paying for anything. So they shut the site down. From the website:
Piano Society is temporarily off line.
The reason is that the swedish police by mistake took the Piano Society server in their attempt to catch possible illegal activity at http://thepiratebay.org/
Our server just happend to be hosted by the same co-location company and has of course no connection to the Pirat Bay. The swedish police admit their mistake and we are working for a solution and hope to have the site up at latest on sunday.
Sorry for the inconveniance.
It reminds me of a story about Redhat Linux in the UK being contacted by police and informed that somebody had been caught making copies of Redhat Linux. It took 20 minutes to convince the police that no only did Redhat not care, they actually encouraged people to make free copies.
The idea that you can legally get music or software for free clearly has some people very confused.