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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. Re:Very true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ARGH! this guy is Theo de Raabt

    TROLLED. YOU WERE TROLLED. holy shit this is frustrating. stop modding this guy up people.

    posting ac because this is ridiculous and this post will get modded into oblivion. please spread the word, though. check his posting history.

  2. Re:Instead of sharing non-free music by xenoandroid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why exactly is a direct and correct response to a post modded Offtopic?

  3. Re:Instead of sharing non-free music by compass46 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The grandparent post is a troll. I think it would be odd for Theo to spell his name wrong. Please mod the grandparent post down, way down...

  4. Insanity by scrwvwls · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can just smell a public stoning of Bram Cohen is on the horizon.