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Aussies Face Jail Over MP3s

Posted by timothy on from the free-food-and-libraries dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two Australian students have been charged over music piracy offences, according to this story on Australian IT. It's short on details, but presumably they weren't running a P2P network. The maximum penalties for breaching copyright under Australian law is 5 years jail."

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  1. more detailed articles by flokemon · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/24/10507773 42470.html

    http://news.com.com/2100-1027-998132.html

  2. Re:Make up your minds!! by Strepsil · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perfectly understandable if you assume the Australian newspaper is reporting the figure in Australian dollars, and news.com.com.net.com.org.com is reporting in US dollars.

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