Australia To Block BitTorrent

Kevin 7Kbps writes "Censorship Minister Stephen Conroy announced today that the Australian Internet Filters will be extended to block peer-to-peer traffic, saying, 'Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial.' This dashes hopes that Conroy's Labor party had realised filtering could be politically costly at the next election and were about to back down. The filters were supposed to begin live trials on Christmas Eve, but two ISPs who volunteered have still not been contacted by Conroy's office, who advised, 'The department is still evaluating applications that were put forward for participation in that pilot.' Three days hardly seems enough time to reconfigure a national network."

Comments

Re:What about my own content

[msormune]

I have a photocopier - why should I be prevented from copying money with it?

Re:*sigh*

[SerpentMage]

For each and every thing it is a double edged sword. It can be used for good and for bad.

Where things go awry is when the bad overpowers the good.

Let me tell you something that happened recently to me at a conference. I speak and whenever I go on the road I take along my legally bought DVD's so that I can watch movies.

So some speakers were going through my collection and said, "hey I have not seen that, can I borrow it?" I replied, "and what are you going to do?" They answered, "rip it.."

I said, "sorry no you can't borrow my DVD. If you want to see then BUY the DVD or rent it." One speaker said, "Hey Iron Man is out, is there not store X around? See ya..."

They were not impressed and thought nothing wrong about downloading illegally. I on the other hand had quite a bit of a problem. Personally I believe more people should be like myself who say, "buy the music, buy the DVD."

And since I was in minority I see that we have a massive problem...

Re:What about my own content

[AviLazar]

Be that software, video or music -- why should I be prevented from sharing it with world ?

Did the owners of said data provide you with permission to share it with the world? If yes great, if not then that is why. If you don't like it then write a letter to said copyright owners and complain. And while you may be sharing data with the permission of the authors others are not. So again, bad apples spoil it for the rest.

But you know this already, so don't act innocent/naive. Why the above is moded insightful is beyond me.

Re:What about my own content

[AviLazar]

read the title of your own post...right next to where it says "Re:"

I took it as "I bought this CD"...many people believe that buying a CD makes the product their own. All about interpretation.
Also my answer covers that. I asked if the owners gave permission. The person is the owner and clearly has the legal/moral right to do as he pleases.
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