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  1. Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up?

    Yro · Spam · · posted by timothy · from the what-firm-resolve dept. · 175 comments
    templeton069 writes "Alston (the Australian Communications Minister) has been lambasted as the 'world's greatest Luddite' for a long time but the spam bill introduced to the Australian Parliament last week seems to have struck an almost magical balance with everyone from the Internet Industry Association, the Coalition Against Bulk Unsolicited Email and the Direct Marketing Association, suggesting that it is about as good as it gets. So what's the story -- can you go from Luddite to pin-up in one step? And more importantly, does the legislation provide a template for other jurisdictions to implement low-pain anti-spam legislation?"

  2. Spam And Alston - From Luddite To Pin-Up?

    Yro · Spam · · posted by timothy · from the what-firm-resolve dept. · 175 comments
    templeton069 writes "Alston (the Australian Communications Minister) has been lambasted as the 'world's greatest Luddite' for a long time but the spam bill introduced to the Australian Parliament last week seems to have struck an almost magical balance with everyone from the Internet Industry Association, the Coalition Against Bulk Unsolicited Email and the Direct Marketing Association, suggesting that it is about as good as it gets. So what's the story -- can you go from Luddite to pin-up in one step? And more importantly, does the legislation provide a template for other jurisdictions to implement low-pain anti-spam legislation?"

  3. Text Of Australian Defamation Decision Online

    Yro · Court · · posted by timothy · from the oh-sure-that's-reasonable dept. · 5 comments
    TekPolitik writes: "The text of the Australian defamation decision is now online. As given, it only affects services that limit access to subscribers who can be identified as being in Australia (such as by credit card billing country) - Slashdot is safe for the time being. This decision will almost certainly be appealed to the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and probably all the way to the High Court. There is unlikely to be a final outcome on this for a year."

  4. Australian Cybercrime Bill

    Yro · Court · · posted by timothy · from the try-page-35 dept. · 2 comments
    skware writes: "The first public hearing for The Cybercrime Bill (2001) was held in Sydney on Thursday. The hansard report of the meeting is online in pdf format at http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/s506 9.pdf. There was quite a good showing from the law enforcement and drafting agencies and Departments. Submissions were made by the Attorney general's Department (AGD), the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and the Australian Computer Society (ACS)."

    "The Australian branch (chapter?) of the 2600 organization has a submission at http://www.2600.org.au/Cybercrime-Submission.pdf. The ACS have a brief press release at http://www.acs.org.au/news/190701.htm. There are some pretty funny quotes from the senators in the hansard report. CHAIR-I was thinking, Mr Boxall, that perhaps I should take my colleagues on a popular education cultural excursion to see Swordfish as a crash course in worms and associated matters. Senator McKiernan would enjoy it enormously."

  5. More Australian Insanity: Forwarding Mail Illegal (updated)

    Yro · Court · · posted by timothy · from the what-with-the-world-upside-down-n'-all dept. · 256 comments
    lpontiac writes: "People have been making noise about the new Australian copyright laws making web caching and Playstation mod chips illegal ... and now, the Australian attorney-general has come out and stated that the new laws also make it illegal to forward email without the explicit (ie written) permission of the person who wrote the email. (Just as surprising to me is that the article claims to know who Claire Swire is :)" Update: 03/04 11:22 PM by T : kipling writes "Regarding the Australian e-mail copyright story, the ABC news site says that the Australian Attorney-General has dismissed these claims. Looks like another news ltd beatup." Update: 03/05 02:55 AM by T : And thanks to downunderrob, here is the AG's press release calling the idea "ridiculous."