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Kazaa Owners Risk Jail

Posted by Zonk on from the kazoops dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's been a twist in the Sharman Networks vs record labels case in Australia. Lawyers for the music industry now claim that Sharman's attempt to block Australian IP addresses from accessing the Kazaa website doesn't comply with a court order. As such, they want Kazaa masterminds Nikki Hemming and Kevin Bermeister to go to jail term. The saga began in Feb 2004 and ZDNet Australia has a complete timeline."

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  1. Elimination by CmdrGravy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm surprised the movie industry doesn't just have them shot and be done with it, it'd be cheaper in the long term and the relative evilness of the act wouldn't impact there current evilness quotient too much.

    1. Re:Elimination by JonN · · Score: 3, Funny

      But...wouldn't that make them, at least to some, 'evil'? ...oh wait, we are talking about the movie industry, move along nothing to see here

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    2. Re:Elimination by quokkapox · · Score: 3, Funny

      Getting whacked is easy enough to avoid - don't accept a free ride on a small airplane that says SONY on the tail.

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    3. Re:Elimination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Not having a "stomage", I think I'd be fine with that.

  2. Re:It's their own fault by ziggamon2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, consider that once, their entire population was imprisoned...

  3. Time paradox? by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 5, Funny

    Australians "risk" jail? Australia was jail!

    1. Re:Time paradox? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I went to Australia once. Going through immigration they asked me "Do you have a criminal record?", and I said "I didn't know you still needed one..."

    2. Re:Time paradox? by ziggamon2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      That joke is like a million years old...

      A quick google shows:
      577 000 occurences of it on the web

  4. Kazoo owners risk jail by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now if only they'd jail harmonica players, too.

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  5. Re:It's their own fault by Ilex · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the media cartels get their way everyone's going to jail.

    Why don't we have done with it and implement the final solution. Turn the whole planet into a jail.

    The Record Company execs will of course have to be ejected into space.

  6. Re:It's their own fault by Idimmu+Xul · · Score: 2, Funny

    What with the syndication of Neighbours, Home and Away and Dame Edna back to the UK, I think the Aussies are getting their own back :(

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  7. Re:Of course... by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually you have the answer in there.

    Put the CEO of sony in jail and you creater a recursive loop that will make all RIAA and MPAA members heads explode.

    you single handed discovered the one flaw in their armor. BRAVO!

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  8. Re:Translated for those who didn't RTFA by Predius · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't see the contempt of court here.

    Court - "Fix your software to meet our requirements for our market."
    Kazaa - "Nah, we'll just pull out of your market, no infringement, no issue."
    Court - "Uh... like, no, you have to offer software to us so we can impose requirements on it, cause, ummm..."
    Austrailian RIAA - "Yeah, cause we loose if we don't have someone to blame for 'lower profits!'"
    Court - "Thats not quite right, shut up you!"

  9. Re:It's their own fault by wx327 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Don't lock them up and make us pay for them. Put their asses to work and make them pay it back.

    Their asses are being put to work in jail. They just don't make any money during that exchange.