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Australian Government Moving Forward With Anti-Piracy Mandate For ISPs

Posted by timothy on from the sniff-it-sniff-all-of-it dept.

angry tapir (1463043) writes Australia is moving closer to a regime under which ISPs will be forced to block access to websites whose "dominant purpose" is to facilitate copyright violations. A secret government discussion paper (PDF) has been leaked and proposes a system of website blocking and expanded liability for ISPs when it comes to "reasonable steps that can be taken ... to discourage or reduce online copyright infringement."

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  1. Re:Goddammit Tony Abbott by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ah, but you forget. Tony Abbott doesn't learn. He's an insane corrupt sociopathic fucker that Australians have made a horrible horrible mistake by electing.

    Captcha: snuffer

  2. Re:Goddammit Tony Abbott by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uncle Rupert owns the content. Uncle Rupert owns our pay tv network. Uncle Rupert discourages FTTH.

    Follow the money.