Aussie Students Face Jail Over Music Sharing Site

An anonymous reader writes "SMH this morning is reporting that three uni students may be jailed for their creation of a music sharing web site. Ok, piracy is not a good thing, but jail is just a tad extreme, don't you think? I hope ARIA (Australian version of RIAA) are pleased with themselves. What burns me about this article is the quote: 'Counsel for the Commonwealth, Paul Roberts, SC, said Ng was well aware he was acting illegally. Not only was the site camouflaged - the web space had been let to him by a teenage boy in Perth - but Ng had co-written an essay for his information technology law course on "open source software licensing."' Not entirely sure what OS licensing has to do with music piracy."

Comments

nice non-sequitur

[Anonymous Coward]

*not only* was the website camouflaged...*but also* the student was interested in so-called "open source" software.

Book 'em, Danno.

FFS...we're getting our asses kicked here.

UPDATE post SET message = "humor"

[segment]

*Sung to 'Down Under' Men At Work'

Travelling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She was using a sniffer and watching my serivce
And she said...

"Did you use a pro-gram called Napster?
Where students thieve and swap music faster?
Can't you swap, can't you swap a bit faster?
You better run, you better take cover"

Trading songs with a man in Brussels
On a T3 his network had muscles
I said, "Do you use KazAa or Napster?"
He just smiled and called me a hackster
And he said...

"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"
Yeah

Trading warez in a chan on the efnet
feds are sniffin my whole damn co-nnect
I said in the chan, "MP3's I got plenty
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said...

"Oh! "I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"
Yeah ... men at work were are they now

Re:your slightly wrong

[cthugha]

BTW, my legal mumbo jumbo was written for me by someone in the law field considering the shit I had/have to deal with.

Which is just as well, considering the apparent confusion that has led you to cite US copyright law in relation to an Australian criminal proceeding.

Re:Ng??

[TheJaff]

Ng: Seems to be pronounced "ngg" [...]

Thanks for clearing that up.