World News 19-11-2003 who: Students Charles Ng, Peter Tran and Tommy Le what: Become first people convicted over internet file-swapping where: Sydney when: Yesterday snippet: "The trio set up the MP3/ WMA Land website which had an archive of 390 CDs and 1,800 tracks to download," explains The Guardian, adding that they received 18-month suspended sentences plus 200 hours` community service. Despite the facts that Australia has some of the toughest file-sharing laws in the world and that nobody has previously been given a custodial sentence for doing it, prosecutor Michael Speck was unsatisfied by the verdict. "In the rest of the developed world you`re likely to get a sentence of between 24 and 36 months," he complained. "Here you get a slap on the wrist." [... more]

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