ARIA Threatens To Sue Internet Service Providers 271
tymbow writes "It seems that ARIA (The Australian Record Industry Association, like the RIAA) is threatening to sue ISPs who allow the illegal download of copyrighted music. Could this lead to a situation where Australian ISPs are forced to actively censor websites and P2P protocols? What happens to legitimate P2P content like Linux distributions? It will be interesting to see where this goes."
My take on this (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, about as interesting as a lighted candle inserted rectally.
Re:Most people download Linux distros from website (Score:1, Funny)
Thanks for the great idea. Now I can pirate the latest Britney Spears cd over my phone!
I wonder ... (Score:5, Funny)
Is ARIA what you get when you rot-13 encrypt RIAA? Wait, did I just violate the DMCA by saying that? Better go get my tinfoil hat.
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
"Filing individual lawsuits against every ISP proved to be too expensive. We were going to file a class-action lawsuit against ISPs as media which make pirating music and movies possible, but Telstra and the other major ISPs just ended up folding," said a government official on condition of anonymity.
The official would not comment on whether radio stations would be sued for distributing songs over the airwaves without encryption and rights management.
"It's premature, but all I can say is that we're considering it."
Re:ARIA/RIAA Conspiracy (Score:3, Funny)
Rearrange the letters of "Tony Blair, MP" and you get "I'm Tory plan B" (for those from outside the UK, 'MP' is Member of Parliament, and 'Tory' is a nickname for the opposition Conservative party).
Hey. Well. Yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Punish the act, not the catalyst (Score:5, Funny)
Sheesh, why not dude? Haven't you ever heard of the evil bit?
Shame on me (Score:2, Funny)
Aria (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Punish the act, not the catalyst (Score:5, Funny)
Gah (Score:3, Funny)
Why stop there? (Score:1, Funny)
Sue ARIA and RIAA for all the pregnant teenagers! (Score:4, Funny)
Screw hollywood and the recording industry.
Re:ARIA/RIAA Conspiracy (Score:3, Funny)
what you mean is (Score:5, Funny)
and I did not speak out
because I was not an American.
Then they came for the Australians
and I did not speak out
because I was not an Australian.
Then they came for the Linux users
and I did not speak out
because I was running NetBSD.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me
except for the slashdot crowd
but nobody was listening to them anyway.
So let them pay (Score:3, Funny)
Mr. ARIA? Where you going? Mr. ARIA, don't you want to catch all them bad song stealing people out there?