Australia Wants to Regulate Internet Streaming

Paul writes "After an incident that occurred on a popular television show's internet stream, the Australian government has once again demonstrated that it simply does not understand the internet by indicating that they intend to regulate streaming video. I wonder what these geniuses plan on doing with porn streamed from Europe?"

Comments

Re:Can anyone say "knee jerk"

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Yay for us! (Us, Australia, that is.)

Considering Bob Brown's starve-in-the-dark economic policy and Mark Latham's post-election meltdown, John Howard was the least worst of the choices offered to us.

On the topic at hand, never mind the porn, can't we ban Big Brother for being offensively stupid?

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What am I thinking? We'd have to ban three quarters of all human activity.

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No, that would not be a good thing!

20 million people elected the wrong leaders.

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Put the story in perspective: Only 20,264,082 (July 2006 est.) people live in Australia.

Re:Can anyone say "dumbass socialist"?

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But the simply fact is that businesses will only ever pay workers as little as they can possibly get away with. When the economy is going strongly, they take all the profits - wages do not rise - and they certainly won't rise now with Work Choices ( Business Choices ). But when the economy is going badly, businesses us this as an excuse to decimate wages and sack workers, while they still take profits ... just slightly lower profits.

Ok , we have two fallacies here.

One, that businesses do not increase wages in an improving economy. This is patently false, and all you have to do to disprove it is look around at any company that is doing well in a strong economy. Wages go up. Guess what? In a company that is doing well in a poor economy, wages go up. In a company that is doing so-so in a good or poor economy, wages go up. The ONLY situation where wages remain flat or go down is in a company that is in serious financial trouble. Why? Because EMPLOYEES CAN ONLY LIVE SO LONG ON FLAT WAGES before they quit and go to another company with better opportunity.

This isn't the 1800's, where travel is hard and you work for the same coal company all your life because there isn't any better place to go. There is ALWAYS somwhere to go, sometimes better, sometimes not as good, but there is always opportunity available in a capitalistic society. it's YOUR job to take advantage of it.

Two, and I realise that this will be a shocker to the socialists and neo-commies on /., but BUSINESSES EXIST TO MAKE A PROFIT! It's true! Businesses are not social institutions designed to give you a paycheck! They exist to make money for thier owners, and THAT IS NOT A BAD THING! It is this Profit-motive that drives the need for good people to do the work required to make the owners profits. In other words, your job exists because someone else put thier financial future on the line to create a business that would make them money, even make them wealthy.

I recommend spending some time reading up on the subject. Perhaps "Atlas Shrugged" would be a good place to start? You really need to better understand how the real world works, and stop living in your little socialist fantasy land where big Eeeeviiil coporations steal all the food from little babies mouths and it's only BIG Government that can save us all. You just make yourself look like a fool.