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BitTorrent: Sysadmins to face the music

Posted by timothy on from the the-price-of-ignorance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two sysadmins in Australia are set to get sued by the music industry after the federal court ruled that Melissa Ong and Ryan Briggs did ignore calls to remove Web sites that were in breach of copyright. All major music labels in the country have banded together to take action against the duo's employer Swiftel, an ISP which allegedly hosted BitTorrent file-sharing hubs (which contained pirated music etc)."

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  1. Farce by BlackMesaLabs · · Score: 5, Informative

    They were never delivered legal documents. Only sent emails and (apparently) there was a phonecall. Why would you comply with emails? Remember that site a while back that made phony cease&desist emails and sent them from hotmail/fake accounts to see how many ISP's complied? Everyone booed the ISP's who went along with it. This ISP ignores the emails and now they're getting sued. I wouldn't blame them. Why would they act on a legal matter if they weren't sent any legal instruction/documents? The whole thing is stupid. More info here: http://whirlpool.net.au/

  2. Wrong. by iLEZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    "(which contained pirated music etc)"
    .. No they didn't.

    Only .torrent files are saved at the server. No illegal material needs to be sent out from, or hosted at a bittorrent server.
    That's the beauty of Bittorrent you see..

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