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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. What's the problem? by marsonist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It seems as thought the vast majority of internet junkies seem to feel that they are entitled to free stuff; Free programs, free movies, and free music. Every time the industry tries to protect it IP people say they are lashing out against our rights. It seems to me that we have tried to convince ourselves for so long that downloading copyrighted material is ok, that we have started believing it. If someone violated a copyright law by sharing, selling, or giving away copyrighted material, they should be punished. They knew it was wrong, and everyone else who does it knows just as well.