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AU Gov't Still Wants ISPs To Solve Illegal Downloads

Posted by Soulskill on from the beaten-but-not-defeated dept.

bennyboy64 writes "Australia's Minister for Communications wants internet providers and the film industry to sit down and work out a solution to stop illegal movie downloads, despite a judge ruling in favor of an internet provider not being responsible for policing illegal downloads. The film studios first dragged internet provider iiNet into the Federal Court back in November 2008, arguing that the ISP infringed copyright by failing to take reasonable steps — including enforcing its own terms and conditions — to prevent customers from copying films and TV shows over its network."

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  1. Here's an idea.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Flood torrent trackers with episodes of Neighbors.

    - NS

  2. And I hereby request by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that the Australian Government and all the potential murderers and all the potential murder victims sit down and work out a solution to stop murder from ever taking place in Australia.

    1. Re:And I hereby request by davester666 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Isn't it more like, people are complaining about telephone-related fraud, so would the telephone company please listen to EVERY SINGLE phone conversation, and then report to the police all the calls that are fraud-related.

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  3. Not My Problem? by smd75 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What part of a court ordered "Not My Problem" does the AU politicians not understand about policing illegal downloads?

    I dunno, I think the ISPs could use this as leverage against the studios to really pay up. Almost to extortion, but legal.

    Want us to police your content, we dont, but if you offer good enough incentive, we might make an effort to work with you, but we dont really have to.

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  4. Re:Maybe it's time for real reform? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You seriously want to put people in jail for copyright infringement? So, someone downloads a 0.99$USD song illegally and you make a government waste thousands of dollars for this person?

    It would be less trouble and cost exponentially less for the copyright holder to ask the local government for the retail price of each illegally downloaded copyrighted material than to jail them.

    In other words, get real. Copyright infringement doesn't deserve jail nor does it deserve thousands and millions of dollars in damages.

    There's also the fact that some things aren't even sold in some markets. So yes there is copyright infringement but no actual loss of sales. So how can there be any monetary damages in these cases?

  5. Gah - somebody stop this ridiculous man by GrubLord · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not representational government when you blindly push your personal agenda against the objections of just about every stakeholder and expert in the system.

    I wish Steven Conroy would hurry up and get caught looking at naughty pics of Miranda Kerr on the (uncensored) Internet during a newscast and fired, so the free world can stop giggling at all these Australian human rights violations and we can all get back to being the relaxed outback heroes people used to think of us as.

  6. Why have talks when you won in court? by TechForensics · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why should the ISPs enter into talks when they've already won in court?

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