[MLB-WIRELESS] The possible closure of Melbourne Wireless.

[vak]

In all my time, this has been the best april fools to date.... My heart 
sunk for a sec (until i saw the other email responses)...... Especially 
after all the work we'd done this weekend (spent 2 days putting a major 
node up)....

Damn you Steve!!!!! Bastard! :) Got me bigtime!

Hahahaa....


Steven Haigh wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>After having a long discussion with the Attorney Generals department
>today, it has been established that the operation of Melbourne Wireless
>has been deemed illegal and a violation of the Telecommunications Act.
>
>The AG department has informed me that a complaint about how Melbourne
>Wireless operates has been lodged, and court documents have been forwarded
>to me with possible fines of over $10,000 per node.
>
>The court documents mention that after monitoring by the Australian
>Federal Police of various operational nodes, the main use of the network
>was for sharing porn and file sharing. After hearing this, a number of
>porn producers and representatives from the Recording and Movie industry
>have lodged seperate court cases holding Melbourne Wireless responsible
>for losses in the order of $5m.
>
>This news has come as a big shock to me, and I will keep everyone updated
>on this matter via the following URL:
>http://melbourne.wireless.org.au/ag.html
>
>--
>Steven Haigh
>President - Melbourne Wireless
>
>Email: netwiz at crc.id.au
>Phone: (03) 9909 0493 - 0412 935 897
>
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