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Australian Bureau of Statistics Doesn't Like Direct Downloads of Census Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sort-of-open-data dept.

Bismillah writes "The ABS has released the census data for the country under a Creative Commons license, but instead of making it easy to get, they've put in Javascript to obfuscate file paths and more. All commented in the source code of course." At first glance, it's an attempt to get people to pay $250 for a DVD with the data instead.

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  1. Criminals and retarded monkeys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As the insightful duo "Flight of the Conchords" explain, Australians are all descended from criminals and retarded monkeys.

    This is just a way to excite them about getting the data by making them feel like they're stealing it when they hack the Javascript.

  2. Re:Bit torrent by philmarcracken · · Score: -1, Troll
    As an Australian, nobody really cares about census data.

    However 'Australia' is some nerdy buzzword for americans so these submissions get through.

    The weather report is more interesting.