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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. DMCAs ARE CRAP by deathcloset · · Score: 1, Troll

    you know, there is just something fundamentally wrong with the concept of opportunity cost.
    I mean, I have downloaded some music, not by any means gigabytes as some do, but an album or two.
    My point is this, I have never really bought music in the past. I have bought maybe 10, and thats maybe, albums in my lifetime (actually I did buy a bunch of records from goodwill [for sampling], but they were like $.25 each and I doubt any royalty came of it).
    Now this was when I was much younger, years before my first mp3, and I eventually stopped buying any music...then I discovered napster. I was like, great!..but I still only used it to download junk like "the dukes of hazard theme" and "charles in charge". You know, things that I would never, ever had wasted the effort to actually order physically, but because I had access to them right there, I figured there was no reason NOT to get them.
    now the record companies say that the downloaded music on my computer is valuble? It's just crap! Crap I thought was funny; crap I thought was gay; crap I thought was other crap and was pretty suprised with what crap I had actually gotten and failed to delete; and lastly, crap.
    case and point: I would never have payed for any of this crap in the first place or taken the opportunity to get it so any appraisal of it's value and cost is void and null. This $60 million the industry speaks of is so bogus. They are talking like $60 billion dollars or merchandise has been stolen. But nothing is missing! the cd's are still in the stores, the bands still have thier PA's.
    Nothing has been stolen. It's just been listened to, or looked at.