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Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-mine-no-mine-no-mine dept.

Xiroth writes "More details are beginning to come out about the lawsuit launched by film studios in Australia. According to law experts familiar with the case, the studios seek to force the ISPs to become 'police, judge, and executioner,' effectively giving the studios the legal clout to switch off ISP customers' internet connection at will. Apparently the ISP iiNet is the unlucky victim for the test case as, unlike other ISPs, they refused to pass on infringement notices to their customers."

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  1. Re:Glad someone's fighting by theaveng · · Score: 0, Troll

    In which case The People will take action to silence the Corporations' tyrannical CEOs.

    James Madison, U.S. Congress, 1789: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a FREE country..." [emphasis added]

    "Those who hammer their guns into plowshares, will plow for those who do not."
    Thomas Jefferson
    Founder of the Democratic Party
    "The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."

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    FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
  2. Re:Glad someone's fighting by theaveng · · Score: 0, Troll

    Australians don't have guns to shoot tyrants?

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    FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.