Aussie Students Face Jail Over Music Sharing Site

Posted by timothy on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:01PM from the that's-reasonable-right dept.

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."

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Re:nice non-sequitur by Pxtl · 2003-11-10 19:51 · Score: 0, Troll

Lets get RMS to sue the bastards for defaming his precious open-source license system by aligning it with piracy.

Alternately, we could just start arresting all Aussies as animal abuse sex-offenders cause... well... you know.
Re:Good by dipipanone · 2003-11-10 21:04 · Score: 0, Troll

He is a theif.

Repeat after me:
"i before e, except after c"

He deserves to be in jail.

Not while such crimes against spelling and grammar continue to go unpunished.