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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Still waiting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If there is no punishment for false notices, send false notices about people who work with IP or ISPs. As well as politicians and their rich supporters. Problem solved.

  2. We are all copyright holders by bpkiwi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sooner or later people will work out that we are ALL copyright holders. For every photo you take, joke you write, or funny cat gif you edit, you hold the copyright. Go ahead, make some and send them to your representative's office, to their kids, or to their parents. All you have to do is wait for them to forward them on to someone else, and then use the laws and tools they are introducing against them. The law will become reasonable again pretty quickly I think.