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ARIA Threatens To Sue Internet Service Providers
tymbow writes "It seems that ARIA (The Australian Record Industry Association, like the RIAA) is threatening to sue ISPs who allow the illegal download of copyrighted music. Could this lead to a situation where Australian ISPs are forced to actively censor websites and P2P protocols? What happens to legitimate P2P content like Linux distributions? It will be interesting to see where this goes."
Yeah, about as interesting as a lighted candle inserted rectally.
Thanks for the great idea. Now I can pirate the latest Britney Spears cd over my phone!
Is ARIA what you get when you rot-13 encrypt RIAA? Wait, did I just violate the DMCA by saying that? Better go get my tinfoil hat.
Australia turns off Internet access for entire nation.
"Filing individual lawsuits against every ISP proved to be too expensive. We were going to file a class-action lawsuit against ISPs as media which make pirating music and movies possible, but Telstra and the other major ISPs just ended up folding," said a government official on condition of anonymity.
The official would not comment on whether radio stations would be sued for distributing songs over the airwaves without encryption and rights management.
"It's premature, but all I can say is that we're considering it."
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
Rearrange the letters of "Tony Blair, MP" and you get "I'm Tory plan B" (for those from outside the UK, 'MP' is Member of Parliament, and 'Tory' is a nickname for the opposition Conservative party).
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
This is fair. After all Kylie Minogue, Men at Work, and the remaining members of INXS (note to self: don't masturbate with a belt around your neck.) all need to eat, after all.
Ed R.Zahurak
You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
My code doesn't tell between good and evil, sorry.
Sheesh, why not dude? Haven't you ever heard of the evil bit?
Thinking this headline refers to Aria Giovanni tells me I need to spend less time online...
Am I the only one who thought that Aria Giovanni was suing the internet for piracy of her pictures? I sure hope I wasn't... Or maybe I do hope that I am the only one.
Computational Madness in a round package.
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
First Delta Goodrem, now this.
Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling
You know those copyright infringing electrons are supplied by the power industry... so they're the real culprits here ... at least until someone owns the sun.
Screw hollywood and the recording industry.
You think thats a coincidence? We have Australia trolls who proclaim to be members of the AGNA ...
- Chuq
First they came for the Americans
and I did not speak out
because I was not an American.
Then they came for the Australians
and I did not speak out
because I was not an Australian.
Then they came for the Linux users
and I did not speak out
because I was running NetBSD.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me
except for the slashdot crowd
but nobody was listening to them anyway.
"Well, golly, Mr. ARIA, I guess we could do that. But you see, it'd take an awful lot of people watching what happens, and a lot of computers and software for them to do their jobs. That's going to run into a lot of money. So what say we ask the government to help us get this paid for? We'll was them to pass a bill for a new tax. Since it's to protect music, it just makes sense that it's a tax on music. We figure of you charge, say, 40% on top of the cost of a CD, that should cover it. You pass that along to us, and we'll do our best.
Mr. ARIA? Where you going? Mr. ARIA, don't you want to catch all them bad song stealing people out there?
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B