by some freak chance? Napster's lawyer pointed out a statement made by the RIAA, that the sharing of copyrighted music was permitted so long as it was not done commercially. i.e. you can share music as much as you like as long as you don't make money out of it or try to claim any money for it to cover any costs involved.
As an Australian resident, I've notice that most of my traffic is coming from the US. As far as I'm aware, there are two major backbones in Australia and these are owned by rival telcos: Telstra and Optus. Telstra's network likes to pop out of aus into the exodus network in the US while Optus has a habit of going through Alter.net. These are the two major links into Australia through undersea cables with sattelite backup. I haven't noticed any of my traces going anywhere else (most of my net use is only Aussie and US content), but if The US backbones were shut down, We'd basically be screwed as I can't see our bloodthirsty (oops...I mean friendly:) telcos putting in any ultra huge link into Middle Asia or africa (it was already pointed out that east asia goes through the US).
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by some freak chance? Napster's lawyer pointed out a statement made by the RIAA, that the sharing of copyrighted music was permitted so long as it was not done commercially. i.e. you can share music as much as you like as long as you don't make money out of it or try to claim any money for it to cover any costs involved.
As an Australian resident, I've notice that most of my traffic is coming from the US. As far as I'm aware, there are two major backbones in Australia and these are owned by rival telcos: Telstra and Optus. Telstra's network likes to pop out of aus into the exodus network in the US while Optus has a habit of going through Alter.net. These are the two major links into Australia through undersea cables with sattelite backup. I haven't noticed any of my traces going anywhere else (most of my net use is only Aussie and US content), but if The US backbones were shut down, We'd basically be screwed as I can't see our bloodthirsty (oops...I mean friendly :) telcos putting in any ultra huge link into Middle Asia or africa (it was already pointed out that east asia goes through the US).