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Seven Film Studios Want 41 Web Sites Blocked By Australian ISPs (computerworld.com.au)
angry tapir writes: A group of film studios is undertaking what is set to be the most significant use so far of Australia's anti-piracy laws, which allow rights holders to apply for court orders that can compel ISPs to block their customers from accessing certain piracy-linked sites. A pair of rights holders last year successfully obtained court orders forcing Australia's most popular ISPs to block a handful of sites including The Pirate Bay. Now Village Roadshow wants to have 41 more sites blocked.
Village Roadshow joined six other studios in requesting an injunction Friday in federal court, reports Computerworld. And meanwhile, "a separate site-blocking application has been launched by Australian music labels, which are seeking to have Telstra, Optus, TPG and Foxtel's broadband arm block access to Kickass Torrents."
Village Roadshow joined six other studios in requesting an injunction Friday in federal court, reports Computerworld. And meanwhile, "a separate site-blocking application has been launched by Australian music labels, which are seeking to have Telstra, Optus, TPG and Foxtel's broadband arm block access to Kickass Torrents."
The internet, as designed, will treat this like damage to be routed around. Most people probably won't notice or at best will encounter temporary outages. Yes, of course people should get paid, however this is playing whack a mole and not coming to a practical economic solution.
How often do must we go over the same terrain. I guess, like masochists, they like it?
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I want a pony.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Me neither.
I want theaters to block movies from seven film studios. I'm sure the studios will respect that, right?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Can someone prioritize which of these 41 sites are worth bookmarking?
They're not really trying. When the 'law' came into effect, I found myself blocked from sites like 'thepiratebay.org'.
I simply added Google's IPv4/6 DNS servers to my list. Haven't had an issue since.
In other words, the ISPs are doing the *bare minimum* to comply with this, and the government aren't tech-savvy enough to know or care, or they figure it will stop 90% of casual users or something.
Bypassed the current filter in less than a minute.
usenet is where its at...
"block" away - I get my shit elsewhere
I bet twitch is one? lol
https://www.twitch.tv/depravo
I did not know about some of those sites. The stupidity of these guys is really inveterate: after so many years of the Streisand effect, they have yet to understand what it is about.
Instead of signing up and getting a temporary hack (like a VPN, and I'm in that business of selling VPN services so this going to sound f'd up)- you instead get off your butt and migrate to a place with people who think like you and are working at extinguishing the laws which attack our freedoms. Two sites to start with are http://www.shiresociety.com/ and http://www.freestateproject.org/ - it's an initial migration of 20,000 people for the purpose of pursuing a free society in New Hampshire. We've successfully migrated greater than 10% so far and are less than a year into the migration. We've got a bunch of state reps elected, gotten libertarians back on the ballots in New Hampshire, overturned laws banning videoing of police, repealed concealed permit laws, and brought about one of the most successful Bitcoin adoption drives in the world, plus gone from having anti-crypto legislation to legislation that'll be pro-Bitcoin and even ending some money transmitter regulations. We've got a large group here that's already anti-"IP" and want to end copy"right". We just need a few more people here and time to initiate laws to make IP unenforceable (short term) and gone long term (ie end federal funding of state, then revolution).
Is the tail that wags the dog ? At least when it comes to trade and foreign policy ?
I have no trouble defending people's property rights but just how much does it cost to defend Hollywood's business model ?
let *us* know what these sites are you want blocked so badly, and we, the users, will be sure to hammer them to death with a ddos your companies won't ever get the blame for.
... the maths:
Seven Film Studios Want 41 Web Sites Blocked By Australian ISPs [about 20 ]
Know what's smarter than seven film studios and about 20 major ISPs?
20,268,164 Australians with a goddam computer.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
has anyone seen a torrent link for Trainspotting II
I can't afford a cinema ticket
Go well
That site went away quite some time ago! There is a "new" one, but it's NOTHING like the original. From what I've seen of it, block away.
One can only hope the continued use of this piece of crappy legislation will be another stroke against the current government in Australia. The sight of our Attorney-General (highest govt law officer) with his tongue inserted in the collective backside of Hollywood corporations makes one think an alliance with China might be a better option for Australia than persisting with the present arrangements.
Opera with the VPN option on defeats the "blocks" quite nicely.
Unfortunately, this isnt enough to reduce wasted bandwidth on piracy. THATS what I expect to gain from this stupidity, cleaner int4rtub3z. fucking warezers and piratez. you arent entitled to anything.
Thanks for the help!
I was searching for other websites to use.
People are still using KickAss Torrents? Really? Wow. I guess I better fire up my Napster client and see if anybody is still using Napster.
Suck a dick.
Australia is an island continent with a very small number of cables transferring data to Asia, across the Pacific and one across the Indian Ocean.
Given that, go talk to a network engineer and ask them how trivial it would be to block things going via half a dozen gateways owned by something like three companies, two of which have substantial ownership by governments. The people on satellite links will be exceptions but there are not a lot of those. Even state to state links go through tight bottlenecks.
The only reason things are not blocked properly is because nobody has put in enough effort (eg. pirate bay is blocked but some proxies are not), mainly because the people that know how to do it (apart from the DSD who want to block all encrypted traffic) do not want to block everything properly (and in the process piss off everyone using a VPN etc). It would be many times easier to implement than "the great firewall of China".
A similar situation will apply to a rural area near you where everyone is at the mercy of the policies of whoever owns the single way in or out.
Some of these site names I didn't know before but now that the industry is publishing the names of sites that I shouldn't go to, I'm making a point of expanding my horizons, so to speak.
Thanks to Seven Networks for helping me discover more worthwhile torrent/pirate portals :)
You know, there was a time when I used to look up to Australia, and admired the way the used to treat people. Then came the corporations..
The ISPs just do DNS blocking. Switch to the google DNS and you are gold