amazon coverart - can we escape?

[Mark Kretschmann]

On 4/20/08, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well traffic is one thing, but really, if we start distributing this
>  data from our own site, we open up a whole new can of legal worms.
>  Right now, people fetch the covers, using Amarok, for their own
>  personal use, if we start redistributing them from our site, that is,
>  AFAICT a whole other scenario... ( IANAL and all that... )

That is one problem, and then there is another catastrophic scenario
on the horizon:

amarok.kde.org gets hacked, and someone exchanges the script with
something malicious. Rickrolling, child porn, worms.. you get the
picture.

-- 
Mark