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Australian police bust piracy ring

article published on 28 April, 2008

Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been commended by the anti-piracy organization for the Australian music industry, Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) for targeting an international music piracy ring. The music piracy ring, which had an operation sourced in Sydney, distributed pirates music internationally. An organized gang in Australia are alleged to have manufactured tens of ... [ read the full article ]

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28. April 2008 @ 20:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I hate to say it, but this sounds like glory heaped on a previous photo op.
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29. April 2008 @ 03:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
to bad the mipi couldnt do it themselves
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29. April 2008 @ 06:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Its a breath of fresh air to see tem actually targeting the real pirates instead of college students!

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29. April 2008 @ 11:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Agreed.

At least this was going after real pirates.
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29. April 2008 @ 17:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Its a breath of fresh air to see tem actually targeting the real pirates instead of college students!

To you there is a clear difference, but to the copyright owner, there is no difference. A P2P download and a physical CD sold for money are both unauthorized copies that represent lost potential sales.
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Its a breath of fresh air to see tem actually targeting the real pirates instead of college students!

To you there is a clear difference, but to the copyright owner, there is no difference. A P2P download and a physical CD sold for money are both unauthorized copies that represent lost potential sales.
is a pirate a loss of a sale, who said that he/she would have purchased the given item it in the first place, this is the rhetoric that the IFPI (riaa) use to calculate their data that has been found time and again to be grossly incorrect?

where as pirate rings are stealing sales by flogging their goods to customers wishing to purchase a copy, maybe if the media industry wanted to stop this happening lowering prices would be a start but nothing will come between their profit margins as making $1 is not enough when they can rip everyone off for £10.

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1. May 2008 @ 18:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
pooor little aussy's.....didn't see it coming:/
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Lol the mipi, they are a sccaaarrryyyy bunch!
Originally posted by nobrainer:
Its a breath of fresh air to see tem actually targeting the real pirates instead of college students!

ive never heard of the MIPI touching australian internet users let alone university students but ok!!
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Lol the mipi, they are a sccaaarrryyyy bunch!
Originally posted by nobrainer:
Its a breath of fresh air to see tem actually targeting the real pirates instead of college students!

ive never heard of the MIPI touching australian internet users let alone university students but ok!!
sry i was referring to the USA branch the RIAA (riaa, mpaa, bpi, ifpi mipi, ect all the same companies behind the trade groups) with their blanket law suits, the rest of the world isn't as easy to push about as the US gov, because of all the lobbyists backhanders to congress members from big media.

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2. May 2008 @ 16:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's not buying off congress that is the problem, it is buying off key members of congress that have been around for 20 years that then come up to the guys who haven't been there for that long and say, do this for me or your bill won't even be mentioned, let alone voted on. And it is good to see that the people who are trying to make money off of this are getting hit and not everyone else.
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