P2P Australia banks receive $2 billion from ‘illegal’ file sharing

Friday, February 20, 2009 12:08 MST -07:00

Telstra claims they have 5,507,000 subscribers of Australia’s 7,228,000 internet users.

Therefore it follows that Telstra is the Carriage Service Provider (CSP) that enables the highest level of P2P file sharing.

The Australian government originally owned the majority of Telstra’s shares and has been selling off chunks since 1997.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possibility of the content industry owning shares in the broadband networks and that if they did - then P2P was merely another distribution channel.

 Today, I’ll revisit the scenario, but this time from the perspective of policy makers.

Consider, if you will, the role of the Australian government in P2P file sharing

According to the data available from Whirlpool, 57.7% of Australians share files using P2P.

  1. #1 by TheLapr at April 29th, 2009

    This is scary, it seems as if there is huge corruption everywhere. There are multiple ares downloads about this if you really want to find out all just search this title for ares music downloads.

    Esto es aterrador, parece que hay una gran corrupcion en todo el mundo. Existen múltiples areas de descargas de este si de verdad quieres saber todo, la búsqueda de este título para descargas de musica areas.

  2. #2 by Legend's at May 1st, 2009

    Good topic. I would like some more information. I will check back to see what the final outcome is. In the meantime I will be waiting patiently listening to my ares downloads :-)

  3. #3 by Turtle at May 15th, 2009

    I just got a text message this evening that one of my poker buddies got arrested today for trying to steal $190,000 from the bank vault that he works at. Looks like we will have an open seat at the next party!

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