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Sony is launching legal action against my university because they are refusing to open up the student and staff IT accounts to scrutiny after Sony traced MP3 downloading to our uni, amongst others.

Not mentioned in these reports is the fact that the ACCC and other groups are siding with the uni's on the issue.

http://australianit.news.com.au/article ... 18,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_pag ... 19,00.html

Bastards.

ACCC? I'm guessing it's an Aussie thing, but what's it stand for?

RogueIce wrote:ACCC? I'm guessing it's an Aussie thing, but what's it stand for?

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. Basically protects the Australian Consumers from big companies who have delusions of grandeur. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing Proff Alan Fels (president of the ACCC) rapping big bussiness on the knuckles and they sit there and take it like the bitches they are!

Sony is not the police. Neither are members of the RIAA. They should turn the information over to law enforcement and let the law do the work.

Fucking gestapo wanna-be's...

Crown wrote:

RogueIce wrote:ACCC? I'm guessing it's an Aussie thing, but what's it stand for?

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. Basically protects the Australian Consumers from big companies who have delusions of grandeur. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing Proff Alan Fels (president of the ACCC) rapping big bussiness on the knuckles and they sit there and take it like the bitches they are! :D

All hail the protectors of Australian economic liberties, such as copy-protectionless CDs and regionless DVD players!

Triple post, bitch

MKSheppard wrote:Triple post, bitch

Triple Post taken care of by your friendly neighborhood SM.

weemadando wrote:

Crown wrote:

RogueIce wrote:ACCC? I'm guessing it's an Aussie thing, but what's it stand for?

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. Basically protects the Australian Consumers from big companies who have delusions of grandeur. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing Proff Alan Fels (president of the ACCC) rapping big bussiness on the knuckles and they sit there and take it like the bitches they are!

All hail the protectors of Australian economic liberties, such as copy-protectionless CDs and regionless DVD players!

I'll say, without Oz I wouldn't have my box set of NGE which works for Region 2 and 4.

Ahh, Sony Music. Grr.

(FWIW, Sony is really more a conglomerate of companies that have similar names but often greatly different agendas. Sony Electronics and Sony Music clashed on Napster; Sony USA and Sony Japan apparently don't communicate all that well)

Exactly why the music labels are copying EMI, Virgin and Universal etc. with their quest to get MP3 makers.

Sony TVs are totally different in that respect, they couldn't give a damn and instead give me good TV service.

My uncle is an insurance agent and got a top-of-the-line 40" Sony WEGA XBR that was "damaged" in virtually for free (he needed to rent a van and get some help from friends)

I also heard a story where some guy when to Japan, bought a multidisc MiniDisc car stereo and it broke. Sony USA offered him $600 for the broken one to see what Sony Japan was doing.

phongn wrote:My uncle is an insurance agent and got a top-of-the-line 40" Sony WEGA XBR that was "damaged" in virtually for free (he needed to rent a van and get some help from friends)

I also heard a story where some guy when to Japan, bought a multidisc MiniDisc car stereo and it broke. Sony USA offered him $600 for the broken one to see what Sony Japan was doing.

Lol, too many separate entities, surprised they haven't tried to buy one another out.

phongn wrote: I also heard a story where some guy when to Japan, bought a multidisc MiniDisc car stereo and it broke. Sony USA offered him $600 for the broken one to see what Sony Japan was doing.

If Sony USA was being kept in the dark, wouldn't they just have to send somebody to Japan to buy the stuff?

They didn't even know it existed until that guy called in.