They need the extra time to properly translate the films and TV shows into your language. :)[/quote]

Ummm….they’re TV shows and movies….In that sense it’s pretty much English is English 95% of the time. In terms of written language then yes ok Australian ENGLISH is only very very slightly different to British ENGLISH, unlike american English which is pretty much just wrong in terms of written English :P
But hey, I here so much about how the american education system is so bad, so I suppose it must be difficult to teach people proper english, let alone how to translate not so good american english into what-everyone-else-speaks english :P
So I guess I totally agree with you on that point….lol

They need the extra time to properly translate the films and TV shows into your language. :)[/quote]

lol ..

They should use Bablefish’s ‘From English to English’ option. lol

Ben how much damage to the filesharing cause can one little boy do? why does Ernesto even permit your posts?

aarrgh you pirate you. you are the stand up criminal

piss your pants and wear yellow the color of cowardice

I’m as pissed off at the copyright cartels as the next guy, but it’s hard to take an article like this very seriously when it’s built on one huge assumption. Without evidence that those movies got there illegally there is no crime here.

But having said that, the SA police get even less respect for simply not bothering to investigate.

A recent audit of computer systems belonging to the South Australia Police has found that hundreds are being used to “share” films. In a move smacking of hypocrisy though, officers involved will not be charged….

http://funnyhack.blogspot.com

As humorous as i find this, honestly the coppers who were doing this have little to fear.
The only reason it was illegal is because they were using the police computers to download, and the police force is a business interest.
Had they done the same activity on their home computers they would have not been in breach of the copyright law.

Take this as serious warning though. If you happen to download on your work computer, stop now. The company you work for is a for-profit business and cannot be involved in filesharing. Your work, not you, will be taken to court. They will be found guilty, and of course they will pass the blame to you. You will be fired and possibly have to go to civil court.

Downloading and copying is completly legal here in australia, but only for civilians in a non-profit situation, not for government agencies or corporations.[/quote]

So all this time I was led to believe that it’s illegal here when it’s actually not? But the fact that I thought it may have been but downloaded anyway I guess makes me dishonest. But no. If I believed that I’d have no music or movie collection now instead of the huge one I have but don’t know where and how it will ever end

Right on, anyway. I’m sure many members of many authoritative agencies do the same thing (hopefully not using their work computers).[/quote]

Why should they tie up their home PC when they have much better faster ones at work, it’s free, and they can control what they do with it.

The fact that they would not be charged was brought out earlier by another poster.

Anyway they should be left alone. They leave filesharers alone, and don’t proscribe to all the RIAA crap . They’re not stupid, they know what’s going on.

Priceless. Does this set some kind of precedent for civilians?[/quote]
Not at all. Besides, I don’t see what’s wrong with sharing and downloading movies or TV episodes. We record them legally anyway. What’s the problem? Coz we don’t have to watch the ads? I never do and don’t know anyone who doesn’t hate them.

ahahahaa NO!!

marijuana is illegal throughout Australia in any shape or form. You are not allowed to have any part of the plant at all and you can be issued on the spot fines for the tiniest substance. It’s not even legal for medicinal use[/quote]

You obviously have no idea what the law is :)

http://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/NDARCWeb.nsf/resources/NDARCFact_Drugs4/$file/CANNABIS+AND+THE+LAW+FACT+SHEET.pdf

or if you can’t be bothered clicking on he link:

SA (1987) 100gram plant / 20 grams resin / 1 plant allowed.

ACT (1992) 25 gram plant / 2 plants allowed.

NT (1996) 50 grams plant / 10 grams resin / 1 gram oil / 2 plants allowed.

WA (2004) 30 grams plant / 2 plants.[/quote]

I’m sorry, but you’re the one that doesn’t understand the law, even with that fact sheet. That fact sheet also states that cannabis is illegal throughout Australia. What you have pointed out are states that have DECRIMINALISED minor cannabis possession. Decriminilisation does not mean “made legal”. It means it’s not treated as a criminal offense. Those amounts you pointed out from the fact sheet actually mean it is treated as a MINOR offence up to that amount. Anything exceeding that amount is then considered a criminal offense, where you can be locked up etc.
It’s like speeding fines. A speeding fine is not a criminal offense, only a minor offense, so you only get a ticket, or a warning if you’re so lucky. A minor offense against the law is still breaking the law, i.e illegal.

After typing this I just noticed in that fact sheet you so helpfully provided…

“Some states have decriminalised minor cannabis offences, such as the possession of a small
amount of marijuana for personal use. THIS MEANS that the offence can be dealt with by a CIVIL PENALTY, such as A FINE, rather than by receiving a CRIMINAL CHARGE. SPEEDING IS A GOOD EXAMPLE
of an offence that is commonly dealt with by a civil penalty.
If an offence is DECRIMINALISED, it DOES NOT MEAN that it is LEGAL.”

The very first line of your fact sheet even says “It is ILLEGAL TO USE, POSSESS, GROW OR SELL CANNABIS IN AUSTRALIA”

Geee….I typed what I knew above, then actually read the entire fact sheet you provided, to find out that it said exactly what I had originally said, even the examples I gave. Talk about coincidence. So you yourself are the one that obviously doesn’t understand the law, even after reading a simple fact sheet that tells you

P.S – Very well written article

good list of PRIVATE TRACKERS THAT ARE OPEN FOR REGISTRATION

http://www.toptorrents.org

list FILM TV MUSIC GAMES APPS

irc.p2p-network.net – #toptorrents.org

They need the extra time to properly translate the films and TV shows into your language. :)

Priceless. Does this set some kind of precedent for civilians?

Right on, anyway. I’m sure many members of many authoritative agencies do the same thing (hopefully not using their work computers).

So, basically, either
a) charge the majority of police officers with a crime and punish most of the provinces police officers by throwing them in jail for up to five years, or
b) let them get away with it, and only a token fine???:)

Okay, okay, there’s middle ground and other ground, but its still pretty funny:)

On a more serious note, while many police don’t have to deal with much, others have to deal with the most vicious, disgusting, vile street-level inhumanity in the country; death, and rape, and abuse, and molesting, and wife-beating; drug-addicts either freaking out or funding their habit; self-destruction and other-destruction. Compared to this, they probably don’t consider
not for profit file-SHARING
to be that big of a problem.

GO RON PAUL !!! He’s still in the race, and he will stay there until voting day !!!

At his courtcase the judge told him he should have had one single plant, planted outside, then he would have never have been brought to court.

As humorous as i find this, honestly the coppers who were doing this have little to fear.
The only reason it was illegal is because they were using the police computers to download, and the police force is a business interest.
Had they done the same activity on their home computers they would have not been in breach of the copyright law.

Take this as serious warning though. If you happen to download on your work computer, stop now. The company you work for is a for-profit business and cannot be involved in filesharing. Your work, not you, will be taken to court. They will be found guilty, and of course they will pass the blame to you. You will be fired and possibly have to go to civil court.

Downloading and copying is completly legal here in australia, but only for civilians in a non-profit situation, not for government agencies or corporations.

[quote comment="334649"]You can’t possibly want stealing (yeah, yeah – protest as much as you want that they still have it – you’re stealing their product) to become legalized![/quote]
Filesharing isn’t stealing. Protest as much as you want, but we still don’t steal anything. *Prove* that I’m wrong or it’s your word against mine (and by facts of reality mine has more weight. :-)

[quote comment="334649"]Before long we’ll have people stealing each others blueprints and whatnot.[/quote]
I see no logic. Theft of a *physical* object is always theft, regardless of what the object is. Sharing, on the other hand, is never theft. Pretty easy to distinguish, no?

[quote comment="334649"]Laws are laws, and should be followed.[/quote]
Laws, if you don’t mean laws of physics, are nothing more than mere words written on a piece of paper by people. These people can be incompetent and often they are. There’s human conduct, pal, ever heard about it?

The police officers should not have gotten off so easily.

You approach this the same way every legalization propaganda group approaches it: “If they can do it, why can’t we?”. Instead of this, bring arguments to its contribution to society. Laws are laws, and should be followed.[/quote]

Blueprints and whatnot are the first pieces of information that get stolen, or copied to be specific. Or what do you think your countrys intelligence agencies are doing the whole blessed day? They steal as much as they can and it is written down in the law that they have to do it to keep your country from falling behind.

Industrial espionage is not much different. It’s just not as legal as governmental espionage. But it is state-approved nonetheless. Do you really think that all the technology that is used around the world has been invented independently over and over again?

And what about the entertainment industry? Did they invent “Romeo and Juliette”, “Frankenstein” or any other concept that has been recycled and reflected throughout the centuries? They take the blueprint, build a contemporary story on it and copyright it. Er, hello?

It is my responsibility as a citizen to trample all over the copyright and make the material available so that those who come after us can build on some cultural foundation.

The police officers should not have gotten off so easily.

You approach this the same way every legalization propaganda group approaches it: “If they can do it, why can’t we?”. Instead of this, bring arguments to its contribution to society. Laws are laws, and should be followed.[/quote]

yeah, i agree. all those police who file-shared should be jailed so that real(physical) criminals can come out and commit REAL crimes such as gran theft auto,robbery,rape,murder.

and i bet the existing prison warden had thier fair share in file-sharing too,and should be jailed too,and to avoid prison overcrowding,existing prisoners who were not piracy-related should be released,including xxxxxmolesters and serial murderers.

thank u konfusion.

The police officers should not have gotten off so easily.

You approach this the same way every legalization propaganda group approaches it: “If they can do it, why can’t we?”. Instead of this, bring arguments to its contribution to society. Laws are laws, and should be followed.

Even when we do get them in a reasonable time and can even get the DVDs, who is going to pay upwards of AU$100+ for a boxed set of 3-4 eps of a popular tv series? If you wait a year then maybe you’ll be able to get a whole season of said tv series for the same price…if they still sell the thing[/quote]

This is a very pertinent point. ‘The Industry’ and its distribution networks neglect to address in the age of the ‘Global Village’. If they could sort their act out maybe so-called ‘piracy’ would not be so much of an issue.

Give us what we want, when we want it.