BitTorrent: Sysadmins to face the music

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)."

Comments

Re:Heavy handed, but it is their right

[aussie_a]

RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.

This has to do with AUSTRALIA. Now I know America and Australia sound the same (they both start and end in the letter "a"), but they're two different countries. Australian music labels are taking these two to court, not the RIAA. To bring up the RIAA, claiming they're influencing elected officials (and it's right to assume you mean Australian officials as this story is about Australia), is off-topic. Wait an hour for when an RIAA article is posted, then you can rant about them all you like.

sue aussies in us?

[burninator]

Are anybody else seeing the strangeness in sueing australian citizens in an us court? What can the possibly an US court do to an foregin citizen?

Re:Very true

[Scarblac]

ARGH! this guy is Theo de Raabt

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

His comment isn't a troll, it's something that's sort of on topic and interesting (look at all the serious replies). I suspect the average actual Theo de Raadt post is more of a troll than this one...