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Australian ISPs To Introduce '3-Strike' Style Anti-piracy Scheme
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.)
Still waiting for the reverse three strikes, where an IP holder gets punished if they send 3 false notices.
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I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
considering a draft industry code, developed in response to government threats to step in and do it for them
Last time I checked it WAS the govt's job to do law enforcement, not the ISPs.
The tiny fraction of individuals who are ruining the Internet for the rest of us should get thrown off the web!!
That policy seems both good and fair.
VPN's are about to be big business down under.
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.
Your assertion certainly isn't true for everyone. Yeah, some habits will change--people who _only_ download because it's a free and easy way to kill time will replace it with some other free and easy activity. That's a huge majority of pirates. But there's still a large number of people who pirate i.e. specific tv shows because they are interested in that particular show, and pirating is the easiest way to do it right now. Take away pirating and they still want their show--hell, some of them are already spending money because they decided that streaming from a storefront is more convenient than hunting torrents. Enough of those pirates have disposable income they're willing to spend that yes, it will make a difference in overall sales (if actually enforced).
used to work in the digital video industry...does that make me a corporate shill? There's still massive holes in the business model but it's not all bad, especially when streaming products are sold _as rentals_ so there's no "but I don't really own it" argument.
Does the VPN industry push for this shit?
oh, i get it. they really didn't mean it.
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what are they going to do?
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Seems like someone is paying lip service to the government.
Three strikes and we let the rights holder go to court to get IP addresses? Given the rights holders have effectively had zero effect in getting the customer details from ISPs in the past, what are they going to do once they get them? If they can't get through the first stage of the legal battle and get thrown out at the discovery process, what chance have they got of actually successfully suing someone?
I am surprised lobbies had not already obtained such a measure in Australia.
It looks outdated now that similar laws are dying in other countries. In France the law was voted but it seems the government is not willing to enforce it. Perhaps it is related to the ruling that considered Internet access is human right.
Aussies don'i play baseball, they play cricket.
Australia is a second class citizen for content. Movies, Netflix, books, you name it. Publishers withhold content or charge much more for it because they can, just bloody minded tradition. That drives most of the "piracy".
The idea that our government is pushing to help people restrict content that is not available here anyway is appalling. If it is not available under free and equitable terms , it does not deserve copyright. But then the industry whispers in the ears of ministers and we do not have a voice.
So i guess that means here in Canada we have a zero strike scheme. You get caught once and they can take you to court right away.
Can we get a three strikes policy for companies that charge exorbitant prices for digital media only in Australia?
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Aussies don'i play baseball, they play cricket.
Not true, baseball is also very popular, but cricket gets the most media attention. Likewise ball sports like Rugby League and Australian rules over Soccer although strangely soccer is well reported when Australia in in the finals.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
I'm leaving the country just in time, and I shan't be back.
Thanks for the education!
I've seen the baseball diamonds near my house used exactly twice. Once involved using it for fireworks. It was built around the time of the 1964 olympics like nearly every baseball diamond in the country.
When a bat is going to cost you $300 and a full uniform and gear to play on a team is close to a $1000, there isn't much demand. The Melbourne girls baseball teams positions are more about forfeits than wins.
I don't know why the local baseball teams need such formal rules with such official imported uniforms. What ever happened to wearing a shirt the right colour?
Australian ISPs are considering a draft industry code, developed in response to US government threats to step in and do it for them,
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
I'm an Australian author. I recently published my 10th novel. I make my living from selling books, primarily on Google Play, but also Amazon and Apple.
How do I opt out of this scheme? How do I request that even if someone downloads a copy of a book I normally request payment for without doing so, that they face no legal harm from anyone? The article mentions "rights holders" can get in contact with potential "infringers"; how would they notify me? I work from home, is my street address on file somewhere?
I found that when I ask these kinds of questions it leads to conclusions that should embarrass the people trying to implement them. The truth is; invariably, these kinds of schemes do absolutely nothing "for me" as downloads of my books would not even be detected by whatever system they want to put in place, even if I was stomping and shouting and demanding all the evil pirates ceased immediately.
This is, and always is, solely an effort to protect a foreign industry, Hollywood. An industry which gives the common Australian absolutely no consideration at all. Digital downloads are often more expensive here than the US, simply because "that's what the market will pay", which is code for, "Australia's high standard of living means we can gouge the shit out of them". Shows arrive late, miss our holidays, are screened out of order or are incomplete.
Why is this good for Australia and Australians in any way? If nothing else, and setting aside my own personal objections: why are we actively protecting a foreign industry and doing absolutely nothing to protect our domestic productions?
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but why can't we clamp down on blood-sucking banksters? I suppose that stealing a film and shirking a $10 theater ticket is more serious than stealing billions in pension funds.