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Australian Federal Police Raid Major ISPs

Posted by timothy on from the overzealous-or-regular-zealous dept.

pflodo writes "The Australian (newspaper) has an article about Telstra the major Australian ISP and other 'declined to name' ISPs that have been raided by Australian Federal Police to 'seek the identity of particular subscribers' in relation to their activity and files stored on the ISP's servers. I imagine they will eventually raid some domestic homes and make a scapegoat of some unfortunate teenagers."

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  1. Re:P2P pirates are economic saboteurs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How do you define a pirate? What if a downloader is simply streaming a batch of files to the speakers, emulating a radio? Would you call that a pirate? Perhaps the downloader desires only entertainment deemed freely distributable. We are fortunate in the software world to have a strong culture promote and produce free operating systems; unfortunately, the music industry has a cartel to crush methods of producing and delivering free multimedia content. This is what I call piracy.

    When an industry attempts to stifle innovation and the development of a culture, I would call that piracy. And from this news, they are doing a pretty good job of it too.