Comments on: Oz Kazaa case

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:18:18 +0000

The Australian big money companies make no distinction between uploading, downloading or sharing. They wouldn’t have spent the sums of money on Media Sentry unless they intended to use the information to pursue the users. It’s wrong and I’m glad their activities have been revealed to the world. MIPI suggest they are better than ARIA, somehow morally superior becuase they haven’t sued 12 year olds. Their hyprocrisy is clear …

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:07:07 +0000

read my comment below regarding conflating downloading and uploading.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:05:33 +0000

This article is as bad as the major media reports! Clearly, the IP numbers of the 300K Australians referenced in this article were obtained by searching kazaa for people SHARING FILES ON KAZAA. If a person was found to be sharing files on kazaa AND had an Australian IP, then they are one of the 300K.

THen this article goes on to conflate downloading with sharing. Again, this is an egregious mistake. The IP numbers were those of SHARERS. Further, the article seems to imply that these IP numbers were obtain somehow from Kazaa administration. But clearly the numbers were obtained from using kazaa to obtain file sharers, whose IP numbers were obtained through independent means.

A very very poorly written article, and I am surprised to find it here. Or maybe I should NOT be surprised….

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:46:18 +0000

Is Malik the only guy who turned up for the kazaa revolution or what!

What Aria, who are not in the case, might do or not do to other people they think are infringing is immaterial to the Kazaa case.

Someone with his academic background might want to explain how Kazaa can win the case from the position they”re now in down there.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:17:39 +0000

Malik says Australia doesn’t have the same civil rights tradition as the US, yet the copyright police haven’t sued any individuals in Australia for P2P downloading. Seems contradictory. Maybe they are waiting for the right time whatever that may be.