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Australia May Introduce Site Blocking To Prevent Copyright Infringement
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.
Isn't that the entire point? They just help people find other people who are infringing copyright.
The first lawyer with a pair of balls is going to have a field day with this.
Film at eleven...
I was having breakfast at my local cafe w/ my partner last weekend, next to us a group of 4 normal aussies sit down at the table and after ordering start talking about this situation.
They clearly weren't in IT, not overly tech literate, and in fact like most typical aussies were pretty "anti-big-brother" by the sounds of it... However while discussing this topic of 3 strikes laws and nation-wide blocking of sites, etc - one of them brought up the concept of VPNs and how they could be used to work around all of this for $5-$10 a month, seemingly a tech literate friend must have told them about it - and now it's spreading to his friends via word of mouth.
A lot of people here are probably already using VPNs for work or to avoid surveillance, and some of you might think that this is the solution to the problem but "most people" won't know about VPNs or know how to set it up.
But the fact of the matter, where there's a will there's a way, and word of mouth is very effective at spreading information to all types of people from all walks of life - no matter how hard the government try, every day ordinary australians - be they house wives, kids, grandparents, or the tradie down the road - they're simply going to end up using a VPN to work around this.
Try as you might Abbott, you can't do shit. I suggest you put our money somewhere worth while, say, into science and education, this thing you don't believe in but manages to thwart everything you've been trying to shove down our throats all this time.
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.
How is that even possible? Don't the ones and zeros come out all sideways when the tubes flush the wrong way round?
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.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Unless they are incompetent enough to use DNS-based "blocking". That is a complete non-starter.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
You do not need a .onion address to circumvent blocking on the client side, an exit-node somewhere else is quite enough. Besides offering anonymity, TOR can be thought as a VPN to whatever exit-node you chose.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
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.
Or, as the pirate bay has, about a billion different mirror sites.
firstly, we are finally getting Netflix etc in Oz, although it won't be the same as in the USA. As for blocking sites, I guess that no-one is going to give up their VPN anytime soon.
There was an unknown error in the submission.
So if someone makes a complaint about corporate GPL violation - will the violating company's web site be blocked as well ? If so it could be useful. However I suspect that this law is aimed at protecting corporate profits and not controlling corporate robbers.
Subtle twisting of facts there, dear Submitter.
The Government at the same time said it would also amend the Copyright Act to enable rights holders to apply for a court order requiring ISPs to block access to non-Australian websites that had been PROVEN to provide access to infringing content.
The fact is, youtube is the biggest host for copyright infringed material and google search is the best way to find other sources for pirating. So unless they plan on blocking all Google services they can stick their legislation in their down under.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating piracy or anything. I just find it funny how people who seamingly know nothing about how the internet works can be tasked with writing legislation for how to police it. What we need to do is make a public collection, so we as people can start throwing money at politicians, just like the big companies do. That way maybe we'll get something done that actually means a damn to humanity instead of big business.
Yep. The other side were so busy fighting amongst themselves they gave Abbot a free ride. Now he is PM we can all see that he didn't actually do any work on his own policies when in opposition, he's still stuck in opposition mode, ie: simply making shit up on the fly and hoping nobody spots the absurdity of his rhetoric.
BTW the mining unions were the force behind the demise of Rudd in round one of the leadership brawl, they are just as anti-AGW as the mine owners themselves, and for the same reason. Getting rid of rudd turned the ETS into a "revenue neutral" tax and diluted the Mineral Resource Tax to the point where it had no effect and raised nothing in revenue. Abbot was on a winner fighting these tax because, aside from the voters natural aversion to new taxes, the miners (Labor), mining unions(LNP), and Rupert's newspapers(ordinary punters), all desperately wanted those taxes dumped or neutered.
The end result is that Australia is now an international piranha when it comes to climate change, it even has a multi-billion dollar "direct action" scheme that in effect rewards companies for polluting the atmosphere.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
lol - The croc bait is criticising Aussie beer and intelligence.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Indeed.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Yes, but that would be the DNS that the exit node uses, not your local one. It would be a poor anonymity solution that tunnels all traffic, except that it does local DNS queries and hence tells you ISP what sites you are visiting.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
By the time the government figures out what a metal printing 3d printer is, there will be an assault rifle in every home.
Just goes to prove that the majority of voters in Australia are conservative. Do they complain as much as the Americans about their government?
Since this is Slashdot, you didn't read TFA. But if you had, it's clear that the US Government is the Australians' government.
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
It's amazing there are people that think that blocking websites makes any sustainable difference.
So, I guess Bont Skates won't be having a web site anymore then.