amazon coverart - can we escape?

[Big O]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> 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
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aside from the child porn i don't really see a problem here.
what's a little rickroll between friends? and everyone knows there are  
no worms for linux, and the win users would be used to it by now. I'm  
sure they'd have a/v
the negatives obviously far outway the miniscule positives. Wait, I  
meant that the other way around :-D