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Australian Government Moving Forward With Anti-Piracy Mandate For ISPs
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."
Spineless citizenry deserves an oppressive government. Don't worry they'll keep you safe in your digital cage.
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.
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Uncle Rupert owns the content. Uncle Rupert owns our pay tv network. Uncle Rupert discourages FTTH.
Follow the money.
They are going to block google search and youtube? The two largest offenders..
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.
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Tony Abbot is a wonderful man. I love him. Stop saying such terrible things about him!
Lol such a small population to be concerned about.
Futile? Yes.
Done to just appease commercial interests? Probably.
Futile? Yes.
Repeat.
It is futile but it does mean that in the meantime I will have to start using proxies to access websites (giving copyright owners the ability to block websites citing copyright infringement does not end at blocking torrent sites) and having to deal with potential issues while downloading legitimate content. It also means that ISPs here might turn to hobbling bittorrents and the likes to help themselves stay within the laws...
How will it work? A national block on a huge set of p2p index sites? A national block on a huge set of download link index sites?
What more can an isp be commanded do? Deep packet inspection for rar files as downloaded?
The long term logging of all users by isp to be automatically cross referenced with p2p tracking industry groups?
Issue a decree that Australian banks and related credit card products are not to pay for VPN or other encrypted services that hide users from their Australian isp?
Then have laws ready to send end users identified by the tame isp after the 2nd letter for state-mandated copyright awareness counseling?
A ban on the internet for users caught again? Or users kept away from the internet for a few months or years?
After all that hard legal work why not just allow other US or UK streaming media services into Australia? Let Australians buy access to any US or UK show, movie as in US or UK? Let them pay per show or per season from any US media provider they like.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I thought ASIO malware was only going to be reserved for the "suspected terrorists and other security interests" and only "...used in extremely limited circumstances and only when explicitly approved by the Attorney-General through a warrant."
One Australia wide warrant for all p2p users then?
Be fun to see how the mass use of state sanction zero day malware interacts with average consumer grade heuristic analysis in your average consumer antivirus program?
Will all the AV brands selling in Australia be expected to whitelist for ASIO?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
All that happened in the USA was the protest leaders where identified, set up or turned. The rest is just busy work.
COINTELPRO has never worked so well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As for Australia, watching all law reform groups is trivial for the police and security services.
The traction the anti Vietnam war draft movement had in Australia will never be allowed to build for any issue.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Of course not but it doesn't matter. They just want an excuse to put figarative heads on pikes of those caught to show that something is being done.
I guess with the right sauce and wine he might be bearable...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So... then you'll need pirated AV from abroad to defend against the governmental spying?
It's worse than in the US, actually...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Just wait 'til the P2P index page gets public. Then it doubles as a "where to go for content" list.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We learned that it's pointless to protest peacefully.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
As an Australian, my biggest objection to this is the huge waste of money to set this up, maintain it and enforce it.
Personally, I've got a $4.00 per month VPN. Let's see, what country shall my computer be in today... :-)
"Tackling Piracy" is the cover story, but it's just for the government to grab control of the free internet. A little bit at the time, they come up with reasons to censor this, ban that, people too stupid to see what is happening. Until one day, you have nothing left of the internet as we know it today.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
Did anyone notice that *they* used the correct term "copyright infringement" while the story submitter used the incorrect term "piracy" ? It's usually the opposite happening.
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What you're getting at is, provide them access, and the problem will reduce substantially... the idea of geoblocking certain content on the internet is totally against the idea of the internet.. which is global access.
Non-peaceful protest would have been no more effective. The US has settled into a state where the people are given an effective illusion of influence, and some real power over minor issues, but kept away from interfering with those who actually run the country. The tea party movement was no more effective, and for the same reason.
I was born on the great antipodean continent, I live there also. I don't, however, consider myself Australian. Being an Australian implies membership of a body-politic, which implies supplicating to politicians and their sycophants. I don't do that.
...let alone packets.
Fellow Australian here. What rights would they be and in what founding document can I find them?
Those rights mostly existed before the founding of the colonies, let alone the federation of the nation.
The documents are many, starting with the Magna Carta.
The US has its own plans http://judiciary.house.gov/ind... (Jul 24 2014)
Read what the US gov could do in the first 10 page pdf:
"amend the law to create a felony penalty for unauthorized Internet streaming. Specifically, we recommend the creation of legislation to establish a felony charge for infringement through unauthorised public performances conducted for commercial advantage or private financial gain,”"
and for the international friends:
"diplomatic and trade-based pressure"
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
and as the Australian Government is little more than a puppet of corporate Australia, eliminating competition is easy.
Stop calling him that.
Why, is he a bad uncle? ;)
Well, at the current moment too many people still buy into the illusion of freedom. It took quite long for the East Bloc to collapse as well. What it takes is the majority of people realizing it, not just a select few who manage to see past the show created to keep them complacent.
That takes time. In the end of the East Bloc, the difference between the show and the illusion created for the people and the reality they faced every day grew out of proportion. We're not at that point yet. People still believe what they are being told.
We have to wait. There's little we can do but wait.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Last time, the then Labor government insisted that the two biggest ISPs put blocks in place, even though the legislation didn't get through the parliament.
The end result: amongst others, a school tuck-shop (canteen) got blocked. Those nefarious parents were maliciously placing orders for kids lunches online!
And, less than a day after it started, school kids could tell you how to bypass the blocks.
I've never pirated a movie, for the lack of bandwidth, and the lack of desire. I've never pirated music ... much the same reasons.
I've got a 30GB a month ADSL2+ connection, and better things to do with it.
But I resent the huge amount of bullshit that governments and movie and music companies put out about piracy, to the point where I won't even buy discs of either until they fall off the "peak interest" of being the latest thing out. When it's cheap, I'll think about buying it.
A lot of the time I won't buy it even then as a direct result of the crap that they all spout.
Don't blame me, it's usually 2 in the morning when I post
Australia is obliged under its free trade agreements with the United States, Singapore and Korea (not yet ratified) to provide a legal incentive to ISPs to cooperate with rights holders to prevent infringement on their systems and networks.
And, ladies and gentlement, there you have it. Again. Completely bypassing the democratic process, FTA's trump national legislation. And anyone that thinks that Singapore and Korea are actually the ones pressing Australia to ramp up their pro-copyright industry efforts is naive. It's just a little smokescreen. So Who's Your Daddy?!! Good ole Uncle Sam (MPAA/RIAA/USTR) is. Bend over, and take it like a man Aussies!
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.