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Australian P2P Sites Disappear Overnight
An anonymous reader writes "In the wake of a raid on an Australian ISP, local P2P site operators are shutting down operations in droves, according to community site Whirlpool. The raid was the result of an investigation by Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), who claim they have a number of targets lined up for future raids. Overnight, a number of sites have shut down or been shut down, and ISPs are reporting major drops in bandwidth usage."
As for music... every mp3, m4a and ogg on my computer, I own the CD for. So there.
.au, you have no fair use rights at all save quoting for the purposes of critique and educational study. All those mp3, m4a, and ogg files you've ripped are quite illegal, just as if you never bought the cd in the first place. Everyone you see witht the little white earphones (seems to be everyone in brisbane)? Criminal. There's no time shifting or format shifting allowed here.
Is it actually legal to download a copy of something you taped or not? In Australia it could be an issue, but what about in the States?
Don't worry about it. Here in
Australia: Where trade agreements get us all the ass-pummelling corporate-sponsered IP laws from the US, without all those pesky rights and freedoms.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!