Australia May Adopt DMCA-Style Copyright Regime

beaver1024 writes "Australia, desperate to garner more U.S. trade, has indicated that it is willing to follow a more stringent regime for protecting copyright. This follows attempts by MediaForce to force Australian ISPs to comply with U.S. DMCA provisions. I fear that due to the current Australian government's weak spineless nature, the harsh provisions of the DMCA will soon arrive in the land down under."

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Aussies vs USA

[thogard]

As an American living in Australia I've got an interesting point of view.

Aussies allow ANY young American to come and visit here and work for up to a year. Its called a "Working Hoiday Visa". It allows young (as in under 25 or so) to visit here and work with odd jobs (cleaning toilets or coding crypto libs) while visiting the place for a year. This offer is open to people from all over the world including the US, England, North Korea and Cuba. I turns out that the US doesn't seem to understand this concept of young travelers unless they are from Mexico and willing to be deported as part of the game. Of course the US travel industry is hurting and the Aussie tourist industry on a down turn. Its something that the US goverment hasn't seemed to understand.

Australia was where Samba was born. Any one remember SSLeay? It was illegal to do that in the US when a few guys did it here. Per capita Australia has more game, Linux and KDE developers than the US. The technical quality of the coders is as good as I have ever seen even though most have a strange ability to absorb much beer. Most of the Aussie geeks I know have girlfriends and get laid, where do American geeks stand with that?

ALl this in a country

[Unknown Poltroon]

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