I feel like a little kid. The more I misbehave, the more I am disciplined.
The more that small element of society pirates music, video and software, and the more its gets whined about, the more the respective bodies crack down ('shut up and go to your room').
Now, if your parents were psychotically unfair and issued the same punishment to every one of your siblings, no matter who the perpertrator was, wouldnt you turn into an uncontrollable brat?
Yet if you have respect for authority, how more well behaved are you for them?
'Now go to your room just in case you do something wrong and dont come out until after dinner!'
I'd possibly be climbing down the drainpipe and going out drinking.
Essentially its about money. I would assume it comes down to the fact that proported 'losses' (never mind if the software would have been purchased legally anyway) are mostly from US owned / based companies.
Thus, Australia, ever so ready to co-operate with said world superpower for strategic and financial incentives may extradite him for an 'appropriate trial' ie. another instance (RIAAesque) of big business run America making examples of pirates.
The thing that gets me is that this attempt at extradition is a direct comment on either inability to appropriately deal with this in our own legal system, or the fact that the US will benefit more from prosecution on their own shores, with their own media.
Personally, Skype has saved me a small fortune (based on what I am currently earning =). Being previously based in an international hub and having friends / family spead across the globe, phone bills hurt.
Skypeout, (whilst still essentially in its infancy) has dramitically reduced my calling costs with generally improved clarity. There is also something to be said about calling friends mobiles in the same town from skype and saving on local calls, even off peak.
(I sound like an advert... =)
Essentially, the biggest downside was the sitting in front of PC thing, but that has been solved with a laptop, wifi and a bluetooth headset... more mobile round the house than my cordless. =)
How this affects everyone else is obviously dependent on calling habits and requirements, but certainly hope this is the beginning of a dramatic shake up of locally based international carriers. Then maybey we will (never) see the fall of monopolistic GSM carrier... Microsoft to GNU and the end of spam. etc.
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The more that small element of society pirates music, video and software, and the more its gets whined about, the more the respective bodies crack down ('shut up and go to your room').
Now, if your parents were psychotically unfair and issued the same punishment to every one of your siblings, no matter who the perpertrator was, wouldnt you turn into an uncontrollable brat?Yet if you have respect for authority, how more well behaved are you for them?
'Now go to your room just in case you do something wrong and dont come out until after dinner!'I'd possibly be climbing down the drainpipe and going out drinking.
Essentially its about money. I would assume it comes down to the fact that proported 'losses' (never mind if the software would have been purchased legally anyway) are mostly from US owned / based companies.
Thus, Australia, ever so ready to co-operate with said world superpower for strategic and financial incentives may extradite him for an 'appropriate trial' ie. another instance (RIAAesque) of big business run America making examples of pirates.
The thing that gets me is that this attempt at extradition is a direct comment on either inability to appropriately deal with this in our own legal system, or the fact that the US will benefit more from prosecution on their own shores, with their own media.
Skypeout, (whilst still essentially in its infancy) has dramitically reduced my calling costs with generally improved clarity. There is also something to be said about calling friends mobiles in the same town from skype and saving on local calls, even off peak. (I sound like an advert... =)
Essentially, the biggest downside was the sitting in front of PC thing, but that has been solved with a laptop, wifi and a bluetooth headset... more mobile round the house than my cordless. =)
How this affects everyone else is obviously dependent on calling habits and requirements, but certainly hope this is the beginning of a dramatic shake up of locally based international carriers. Then maybey we will (never) see the fall of monopolistic GSM carrier... Microsoft to GNU and the end of spam. etc.
my 2 cents.