Aussie Students Face Jail Over Music Sharing Site

An anonymous reader writes "SMH this morning is reporting that three uni students may be jailed for their creation of a music sharing web site. Ok, piracy is not a good thing, but jail is just a tad extreme, don't you think? I hope ARIA (Australian version of RIAA) are pleased with themselves. What burns me about this article is the quote: 'Counsel for the Commonwealth, Paul Roberts, SC, said Ng was well aware he was acting illegally. Not only was the site camouflaged - the web space had been let to him by a teenage boy in Perth - but Ng had co-written an essay for his information technology law course on "open source software licensing."' Not entirely sure what OS licensing has to do with music piracy."

PARIS HILTON tape..get it here

[Anonymous Coward]

Looking for the Paris Hilton porno tape? Look no further than Freenet.

CHK@qGlSiCK3HPMx38fCuSPlo81ws2AMAwI,LRhfAE-DMDcs nr QhkXEiBw/parissexmovie_256k.wmv

(Remove the spaces that Ashdotslay inserted into the key)

By the way, this is a good opportunity to remind everyone that the power of Freenet is its anonymity. As the Hilton family threatens to sue anyone offering the video, one method of distribution stands impenetrable. Freenet.

nice non-sequitur

[Anonymous Coward]

*not only* was the website camouflaged...*but also* the student was interested in so-called "open source" software.

Book 'em, Danno.

FFS...we're getting our asses kicked here.

Ng??

[NaCh0]

Somebody should buy that kid a vowel.

Evil terrorist

[azzy]

> Not entirely sure what OS licensing has to do with music piracy.

If he knew anything at all about open source, and especially if he advocated it, that makes him an evil terrorist.

Re:Overloards

[Anonymous Coward]

You should apologize for the entirety of your post, not just the spelling.

Here's an idea

[coolmacdude]

We need a new music distribution movement.

Open Source Music Licensing

1. Someone posts a blank [ insert fav music editor of choice ] file

2. everyone adds one note and then reposts it

3. After thousands of people have contributed, release it on CD and P2P.

4. Profi... I mean, uh, watch as it dominates the current 800 lb. gorillas of the music arena. No one could match the raw emotion, tonal diversity, and freedom from coherence such a piece would possess.
Except maybe John Cage [bbc.co.uk].

Re:Overloards

[jerde]

I apologise for my horrible spelling, it's 2 AM

2 AM? For most true geeks, that's like mid-afternoon.

- Peter

UPDATE post SET message = "humor"

[segment]

*Sung to 'Down Under' Men At Work'

Travelling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She was using a sniffer and watching my serivce
And she said...

"Did you use a pro-gram called Napster?
Where students thieve and swap music faster?
Can't you swap, can't you swap a bit faster?
You better run, you better take cover"

Trading songs with a man in Brussels
On a T3 his network had muscles
I said, "Do you use KazAa or Napster?"
He just smiled and called me a hackster
And he said...

"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"
Yeah

Trading warez in a chan on the efnet
feds are sniffin my whole damn co-nnect
I said in the chan, "MP3's I got plenty
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said...

"Oh! "I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"
Yeah ... men at work were are they now

Prison States of the Empire

[handy_vandal]

Ok, piracy is not a good thing, but jail is just a tad extreme, don't you think?

Recall that Australia [wikipedia.org] was Great Britain's prison state, during the heydey of the Empire.

What's next -- condemning hardcore Ausssie offenders to Tasmania [latrobe.edu.au] ...?

-kgj

Re:MAGNATUNE.COM

[shione]

I like the part on their site which says:

"No major label connections.

We are not evil. "

XDD

You should have see OUR Charles Ng!

[DickeyWayne]

Bloody Aussies think they have it bad because your Charles Ng (allegedly) violated copyright laws. Why don't you come to the U.S., and see what OUR Charles Ng [google.com] was like! You'll see just how easy you've got it down there!

Re:Obvious

[chgros]

their anti-privacy measures
Is that on purpose? Freudian slip?

Ten Cigarettes

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah sure you did hardarse. You learned how to "kill someone undetectably" from abos in the lockup.

Hi there, Mr. Skeptical. I have five words for you. "Make him eat ten cigarettes." The nicotine therein is enough to kill when eaten as opposed to smoked, and while detectable in terms of what caused the death, it gives absolutely no clue as to who or why, much less when or where. Better yet, even if you handed him the cigarettes yourself, there will be no fingerprints remaining by the time the "evidence" is extracted from the decedent's digestive tract.

How you make someone eat ten cigarettes is your own business.

Jail is nothing more than criminal education.

Re:Ng??

[stor]

I've actually run into a number of "Ng's" here in Oz. Reminds me of an outburst from one of my slightly-aggressive teachers in school:

"Ng? What kind of name is Ng? I can't even shout it!"

Cheers
Stor

Re:Ng??

[daveo0331]

Maybe Ana could loan him an a.

Re:About time!

[hdparm]

I went to the shop the other day, and I was in there for only about 5 minutes.

When I came out there was a motorcycle cop writing a parking ticket. So, I went up to him and said, "Come on man, how about giving a guy a break?"

He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. So I called him a pencil-necked Nazi.

He glared at me and started writing another ticket for worn tires!
So I called him a piece of horse shit. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windscreen with the first.
Then he started writing a third ticket! This went on for about 20 minutes... the more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote.

I didn't care. My car was parked around the corner.

Re:your slightly wrong

[cthugha]

BTW, my legal mumbo jumbo was written for me by someone in the law field considering the shit I had/have to deal with.

Which is just as well, considering the apparent confusion that has led you to cite US copyright law in relation to an Australian criminal proceeding.

Re:Ng??

[TheJaff]

Ng: Seems to be pronounced "ngg" [...]

Thanks for clearing that up.

Re:nice non-sequitur

[Anonymous Coward]

FFS...we're getting our asses kicked here.

I think he meant FSF