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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Investigators from the Australian record industry Friday raided a Sydney office housing the company that owns Kazaa, the world's largest file swapping network, in a bid to uncover evidence of alleged copyright infringements.

The Federal Court gave five major Australian record labels permission to raid 12 premises in three states to collect evidence against Kazaa, said Michael Speck, general manager of the Music Industry Piracy Investigations.

The group is owned by record companies Universal, Festival Mushroom Records, EMI Music, Sony Music, Warner Music Australia and BMG Australia.

The raided sites included the office of Kazaa owner Sharman Networks, the homes of two of the company's executives, three Australian universities and Internet service providers.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Umm...since when did a private organization have the right to go raiding people's business' and homes? What the hell kind of powertrip are they on?! What's next, song swappers being held at gunpoint until their relatives can fork over however many thousands of dollars they think they should be fined?

Welcome to the brave new world of Corporation Police. Open up that cornhole wide now.

Welp...looks like I'm going to have to shove a big helping of the 2nd amendment down their gullets if they come callin'

*loads shotgun* come get some!

Do the laws in Australia allow this? This is a pretty scarry development. When it was raiding harddrives I didn't like it but could see the argument (although many of you dissagreed). But non-law enforcement agencies raiding ones home violates the very essence of privacy.

Any Aussies out there that can shed some light on the legal authority and president that these raids were carried out under?

From what I've heard, Australia and a few other countries have a law that actually permits this. The law is called the Anton Pilar order.

This is scary stuff batman.

http://www.auditnet.org/articles/PCProf ... 202002.htm

I suspect a few pedofiles may well be concerned as Kazaa was looked at as a premere place to post and download kiddie porn. Open real wide now.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by woodchip:
I suspect a few pedofiles may well be concerned as Kazaa was looked at as a premere place to post and download kiddie porn. Open real wide now.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Bah. If you want secure distribution of files you don't use Kazaa. You use things like freenet or anonymous usenet.

Or: you can have a proggy that destroys all data on your hdd if the wrong pasword is entered more times than specified.

interesting, while the kazaa raids have been all over the news i havn't really paid them much mind. but i didn't know that it was actually NOT the police doing the raids. generally you'd expect the police, maybe working with the anti-piracy police unit, would actually carry the physical act out.

i mean, if a bunch of guys came upto my place of work, showed me a court document that i can't instantly verify, tells me something about an "Anton Pillar" order (which i of course have never heard about), then i am NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THEM. and i will do everything in my power to remove them from teh premicies and possibly perform a citizen's arrest.

so yeah, you'd expect at least some cops to be present, just to tell you that they are legit.

still, this Anton Pillar thing is all news to me. thx for the heads up.