Uni Students Slammed For Music Swapping

jomaree writes "The SMH Online reports that Sony, EMI and Universal will be in the Federal Court today, in an attempt to stop students using uni computers to swap music files. Michael Speck, the director of Music Industry Piracy Investigations, is quoted as follows: 'And we're not talking about one track here, one track there,' he said. 'We're talking piracy, significant examples of piracy.' By contrast, Sydney Uni says it knows of one student with a handful of files on a website, which does actually sound quite a bit like one track here, one track there."

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Re:error in the article

[Evil Adrian]

There are hundreds of thousands of artists out there who had the option to not sign that record company contract.

So, you are wrong.

Pirates taking food from my kids mouths.

[Anonymous Coward]

People are pirating my music instead of buying it. The fact that they have a pirated copy of my songs means they want them. I went to a lot of trouble, effort and expense to conduct business according to the laws of this country. If I am able and required to follow the rules, I damn well expect the consumers to do so as well. As far as I'm concerened, Palladium can't get here quick enough.

I followed the rules. If I have to use the full power of the law to get people to reciprocate, I will.