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Australian ISP iiNet Walks Out of Piracy Warning System Talks

Posted by Unknown on from the good-luck-pirating-with-data-caps dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Torrent Freak: "A leading Australian Internet service provider has pulled out of negotiations to create a warning notice scheme aimed at reducing online piracy. iiNet, the ISP that was sued by Hollywood after refusing to help chase down alleged infringers, said that it can't make any progress with rightsholders if they don't make their content freely available at a reasonable price. The ISP adds that holding extra data on customers' habits is inappropriate and not their responsibility."

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  1. Good on them. by crafty.munchkin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As an Aussie, I approve of them making a stand against how everyone in this country is ripped off by all the media outlets - especially when our dollar is worth more than the US dollar. And as for making us wait 3-6 months because they don't want us watching... well, the internet tore down that time barrier as well.

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  2. Good news! by It+took+my+meds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm so glad I'm with iiNet; they take a stand for me as a consumer. I don't pirate anything, nor do I view content that is outside the norms of adult society, however my browsing habits are not other people's business - especially corporate entities!

    1. Re:Good news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm so glad I'm with iiNet; they take a stand for me as a consumer. I don't pirate anything, nor do I view content that is outside the norms of adult society, however my browsing habits are not other people's business - especially corporate entities!

      No disrespect intended, but there isn't anything special about that. You are just like the vast majority of other internet users. It's high time that the media companies and the government get that through their head.

      Should everyone be "tracked like an animal" on the internet just because some people abuse it? No. Same goes for the advertisers who think tracking everybody is their god given right.

  3. Game of Thrones from theoatmeal by Hyperhaplo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Americans have a similar situation.
    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

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  4. Re:The content by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How does that work out?

    Not laden with ungodly amounts of DRM and silly timing restrictions?

    The trouble is that not only is pirated content free, it's also better, because of the lack of DRM, and lack of silly timing restrictions.

    If you torrent, you get it *now* and can put it on a media server, transcode it for your phone, pause, skip the ads (as it were), etc etc.

    If you pay, not only do you have to wait a lot longer, you also get a worse product for your troubles. I once purchased a DVD of Castle which was laden with some lame attempt at extra copy protection. Basically, they split the DVD files up into teeny slices. The results it that the DVD player would occasionally pause for a visible fraction of a second between some of the odder transitions and the forward and backwards seeking wouldn't work properly.

    Nice.

    So, I did wait, and I did pay, and I got treated like a complete crook and sold a heap of crap which was a far worse experience than if I had downloaded it.

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