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Australia May Introduce Site Blocking To Prevent Copyright Infringement

Posted by Soulskill on from the lucrative-lobbying dept.

Bismillah writes: The conservative Coalition government in Australia is on the verge of introducing legislation requiring ISPs to block sites alleged of copyright infringement. Details of the bill have not yet been published, but it is expected to be sent to Parliament this week.

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  1. Good luck. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    They've also tried this in Finland.

    How effective is it? Two words: Mirror and Proxy. It literally has no effect on piracy. It's a waste of resources legislated in by people with no handle on the situation.

  2. Australian here by mjwx · · Score: 5, Informative

    G'day,

    This is the kind of bollocks that the government has been talking about since day one. Mostly driven by the deplorable ACT Attourney General, George Brandis.

    The first thing I should point out is that it's just talk. They're talking about introducing legislation to parliment. They haven't done anything but talk.

    The second thing is, the Libs face a hostile senate. The Liberal party are our conservatives BTW. Whilst they can pass it in the lower house, it will fail in the upper house.

    The third thing is, they will face a revolt from their back bench, many of whom are facing re-election in the next 18 months in an environment where the Liberal party is losing almost every election they're coming up against. So a lot of them are thinking of their own good over the parties.

    Finally, ISP's are a powerful lobby over here and you can bet they dont want to turn customers to smaller ISP's who will skirt the laws.

    So I'm not worried. the LNP (Liberal/National Party) haven't been able to do much of anything and what they have done has earned them a severe backlash.

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    1. Re:Australian here by NoMaster · · Score: 4, Informative

      The second thing is, the Libs face a hostile senate ... the LNP (Liberal/National Party) haven't been able to do much of anything

      To put this into some perspective for non-Aus people: the LNP government is still trying to get major items from last year's budget passed. And this year's budget is only about 8 weeks away...

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    2. Re:Australian here by Harlequin80 · · Score: 4, Informative

      What I find most disappointing is that the previous Labor government was planning to push through mandatory internet filtering and the conservative LNP party was up in arms about how evil that was. Now they are pushing a similar thing as well as a potential 3 strikes law. Makes it hard to pick who to vote for.

      That said I agree with mjwx, this legislation will be highly populous and fail in the senate.

  3. Salami Slicing by enter+to+exit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Again, this imbecile government bungles another one of their policies. They have no subtlety. If you want to implement an unpopular law, blame it on the terrorists.

    Tell the people the laws are necessary to prevent The Children radicalizing. Then once you've created the regulating mechanism, increase it's scope outside Parliament. (preferably through carefully vague mandates). Salami slicing.

    They've stuffed it in their collective haste to please Rupert Murdoch. It's a good thing our government is incompetent.