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It boggles me, because it's insanely easy to get most everything in high definition. Anyway, good to hear your net isn't that bad. Even I only have adsl in Tarragindi, because it's one of those suburbs that just happens to be really far away from an exchange. I could get an ADSL2 account, but...

Yeah, that's why I wouldn't park there while there are other spaces free.

I don't buy that argument. Stealing a bar of soap from a hotel results in the hotel having one less bar of soap. And I'd definitely park in a wheely space if there were no others free... if the car park is jam-packed with cars why should the wheelies automatically get an easy space when...

I was surprised to read this (being 2010 and all), but then I remembered you live in the outback*, with (I'm guessing) slower-than-average internet speeds. What are the connections like there, RE? *somewhere that's further than 10km from a major CBD.

Maybe, but fundamental in determining whether any law was broken. I'm not a lawyer, but is it illegal to intend to commit a crime here? That would mean it's possible to have illegal thoughts, which I didn't realise was the case in Australia. Is it illegal to think about stealing a CD from...

No actually it's not. Torrent files are maps. They point to things like mp3's, divx, and iso files. Downloading a map to copyrighted data is not the same as downloading copyrighted data, which is why I asked Monty if he got busted for .torrent files (the maps to the data), or the data itself.

I'd be interested to know more (because the laws surrounding copyright mostly disgust me). Was it downloading .torrent files that got you in trouble (totally legal), or was it downloading the data the torrents pointed to? Did you get busted by the AFP or just your ISP?

Okay, nobody download any copyrighted stuff for free. Only use those two (legal) sites I posted to download legal stuff. -Ian