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Legal Group Says Unlimited Broadband Promotes Piracy
bennyboy64 writes "Unlimited broadband plans are all too familiar in many countries; in Australia they're scarce. One ISP offering such a plan between the hours of 8pm and 8am, AAPT, is being looked at as a matter of high interest by a legal group representing the interests of the global film industry, AFACT (the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft). It said AAPT was encouraging users to download copyrighted material. AAPT's advertising states: 'If you want unlimited music, unlimited games and unlimited movies — get unlimited off-peak broadband downloads from AAPT.' AFACT executive director Adrianne Pecotic said: 'In the context of the AAPT promotion, we have a concern that it could be misconstrued to promote illegal downloads and that's something that we'd like clarified.' AFACT is currently involved in what will be a landmark court case with Australian ISP iiNet. It recently claimed in court proceedings that there was a link between iiNet upgrading the service plans of heavy Internet users and the proliferation of film piracy."
8pm to 8am? I wish!
I am currently on AAPT's unlimited-offpeak plan. The article summary is wrong. The offpeak period in fact begins at 2am. You can actually see this in the fine print at the bottom of the linked Youtube video.
In passing, I'll moan about something related. Last month, we went over our onpeak limit of 20GB. Our broadband was cut off, and we had to content ourselves with dial-up speed for the rest of the month. We sighed, and thought, "oh well, at least the broadband will only be cut off from 8am till 2am. We're paying for unlimited traffic from 2am till 8am, so we'll still have that."
I had, of course, forgotten that it was AAPT we were dealing with -- that cesspit of incompetence, greed and malice. The wankers cut us off overnight too.
Since then, I have resolved to be careful during the day, and to download the Internet every frickin' night from 2am till 8am.
...porn?
The stats don't show that that its helping but you in Victoria you can (and will) get a ticket for going 103.1 in a 100 km range. The road between Melbourne and Sydney has cameras that take photos of registration (licenses) plates about 8 times along the 6 hr trip and if you are more than 3% over, they send you a ticket in the mail.
Note that the Australia Design Regulations for vehicles state a speedometre only needs to be accurate to +/-10%, so you should be able to challenge any speeding ticket that falls within that bound fairly easily.
With that said, pretty much all speedos read low by ~4-5%, so if you're ticketed for >5% or so over, it's essentially guaranteed you "knew" you were speeding.