Australian ISPs To Introduce '3-Strike' Style Anti-piracy Scheme

Posted by timothy on Friday February 20, 2015 @11:57AM from the australian-rules-baseball dept.

angry tapir writes Australian ISPs are considering a draft industry code, developed in response to government threats to step in and do it for them, that will implement a 'three notice' scheme for alleged copyright infringement. If an ISP customer gets three notices in 12 months, a rights holder can go to court to obtain their details and potentially take legal action against them. (The other part of the government's copyright crackdown is the introduction of a scheme to have pirate websites blocked — the government has yet to introduce the legislation for it, however.)

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Re:What? by gronofer · 2015-02-20 13:17 · Score: 4, Informative

Last time I checked it WAS the govt's job to do law enforcement, not the ISPs.
Traditionally it was a civil matter, publisher vs publisher. The government only provided the courts.
Re: Still waiting by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-20 18:04 · Score: 3, Informative

No, they have to pay to accuse you as well. As usual, the lawyers are the winners here