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Kazaa Offices Raided
rj writes "ZDNet Australia is reporting the Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) this morning raided the offices of Kazaa owners, Sharman Networks, along with P2P company Brilliant Digital Entertainment, and the homes of key executives. Background on prosecution of copyright music in Australia over P2P is also available."
At last, someone has finally gotten in trouble for bundling spyware in their products!
-All your offices are belong to us*
*with Aussie strong accent, plz.
Regards,
jdif
Let's overcome our weakness.
MIPI just got confused. They didn't realize that a file sharing network didn't include physical files.
Besides, with a name like MIPI, could you really stay mad at them for that long?
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
I am guessing that throughout the world, the different recording associations got into a contest to see who could become the most Nazi in their tactics. Until now, RIAA had the lead. To counter this, the RIAA will probably round up all of the file traders into camps. This will allow them to win.
Trillionaires with Mafia support? (I mean Mafia backing, not people who threaten to make you sleep with the fishes unless you reboot your PC before ringing)
The ZDNet article points out that if all the "pirated" tracks in Australia were purchased for $A0.99, then the record companies would be $2b better off.
As of now, my understanding is that Apple sells tracks for $US0.99, and is in pretty close to a breakeven state for iTunes (this may have changed recently, as surely the sheer volume going through iTunes would cause them to move into profit at some point). Regardless, it seems that $US0.99 is pretty close to the breakeven point, and you'd assume the breakeven cost in Australia would be no lower than that given the population is so small - let's cut the record companies some slack and assume $US0.90 is the breakeven point for online music sales in Australia.
$A0.99 translates to $US0.76. Now, since it costs $US0.90 to provide a downloadable music track, Kazaa is actually *saving* the record companies $US0.14 per downloaded track. By my calculation, the 850,000 tracks downloaded via Kazaa haved saved Australian record companies $US119,000 in providing that service.
What's that? Bogus use of statistics, you say?...
(shot of men in riot gear overturning desks, rifling through offices and smashing computers)
Voice in aussie accent: Search engine!
(shot of Fosters can)
Voice in aussie accent: Beer!
Introducing the new Occam Fusion! Now with sqrt(-1) fewer blades!
And I just got WAY into Australian pop music! Now I'll never get my fix.
What post? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!
... I'm using a Mac.
Wait...
Could this be considered a case of "putting the squeeze on the Sharman"?
Mr. Whipple will not be happy about this!
(Sorry, I resisted as long as I could...)
Mobster 1: "I thought you said Troy McClure was dead!"
Fat Tony: "No, what I said was he sleeps with the fishes."
It just goes to prove that America is not alone.
Australia also has the best judicial system that money can buy.
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"MIPI obtained an Anton Pilar order ? which allows a copyright holder to enter a premises to search for and seize material that breaches copyright without alerting the target through court proceedings ? yesterday from Justice Murray Wilcox, and began raiding premises in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria this morning searching for documents and electronic evidence to support its case against the peer-to-peer companies."
Holy run-on sentence, Batman! Jeez...
I'm a minister!
2 billion loss per day for some compressed
...
acoustic waves! mama-mia!
"more titts, i say!"
mewonders why the RIA (terrorist groups only have
three letters) isn't sueing the power companies
for supplying electricity to the network operators.
shutting down some power plants should do the trick!
time to backup that stuff and bury them somewhere
in the lawn. or for that matter, make a nice
geo-cache somewhere
good thing the "MY computer" that is running
P2P client is safely hidden in some dark ally in
bangkok and is being VPN remote desktop-ed from
my real home, puh!
and some studies have shown that file-sharing may actually contribute to greater expenditure by participants on legitimate music.
I wonder where these studies came from? Saying file-sharing encourages the purchase of legitimate music is like saying hookers encourage fidelity in marriage.:P
Harpo Tunnel Syndrome--my wrist feels funny.
We believe that during the raid proprietary code was seized which might allow the music industry to set up their own file sharing system. We therefore ask for an immediate raid on all the music industry premises and confiscation of all suspicious hardware for analysis.... Hey it works both ways.
NOBODY expects the US Patriot Act!!!....
...and now for something completely different...
I just had a mental image of a mobile Alexander Calder would never have had publicly shown.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of music files and terabytes worth of pirated DivX movies were confiscated on the RAID at the Sharman office. Kazaa is essentially shut down as there are no files available to be shared now that they're all in police custody. *rolls eyes*.
What's the point of raiding the offices of a software company who just makes the P2P client? They're not committing the crime!
Don't squeeze the Sharman
However, why the big quote from the U.S. Constitution? This happened in Australia.
Can't you quote someting Australian? :-)
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What sort of redundancy does their new office layout provide? Are there any significant speed gains with this enhancement?
[sorry been up for 24 hours rebuilding a damn E4500]
"Don't squeeze the Sharman!"
---- Politics: Kissing ass and pointing blames.
I can think of 2 things wrong with your post. 1. You can't count.
The Tools Of Ignorance wanna be a tool?
Sarcasm, it's what's for dinner. Guess you missed the dinner bell.
Please stand clear of the doors, por favor mantenganse alejado de las puertas
I didn't realise the music industry owned the copyrights to porn films as well. You learn something new every day.
Here's how it would go down at my house:
{knock knock} {sound of door being bashed open} Hullo? I have an Anton Pillar order thingie and I'm here to sieze stuff...
{Blam, Blam, Blam}
Really? I have a variety of legal firearms all protected by the 2nd Ammendment and the right to protect my home and property. Now what was that about some sort of legal order?
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
You believe in the law as the way to run the country, but you advocate murdering people who show up at your door with a court order? Uh, yeah.
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