Considering Australians don't even have the constitutional right to free speech, have the most ill informed internet censorship rules, have a maximum of MA rating on software (under 15 only with an adult buying it), has the only national postal carrier collecting and selling customer data, has admitted to (but not stopped) Echelon, why does this suprise anyone?
Is this true? There was a recent Australian court case where it was ruled that you are allowed to make a copy of the original for the purpose of putting it on a different media, provided you retained the original and did not use it at the same time (like one for the wife on CD and one for the husband on MD). It was underpublicised over here but at the time I thought it was a pretty cool ruling. It made most of the software houses change their licenses to allow a 'backup copy for archival purposes'.
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I hate to say it, but that's nothing.
The neanderthals who imposed the Internet censorship bill on us poor Aussies expect ISPs to also apply the bill to USENET. Don't swear, don't post material that is not G rated, don't post binaries bacause ISPs will just have to cull them (what else should they do, open them all first?) And it isn't enough to host your servers overseas - you have to filter the content being delivered as well as the content being stored.
The Australian Government has killed the Australian Internet Industry.
There are two main sticking points in the censorship law, whether you like the idea or not. one: you must use an 'approved' filter, and if you don't your ISP must filter your connection for you and can charge you for it. Linux users may start saving now since no Linux filtering scheme is even being considered. two: you cannot store your 'possibly' illegal content overseas, because the regulations make the ISP responsible for what you access. It should be noted, the UK had a case where they court decided that even though the content of a site was hosted overseas, the owner was a local and was therefore under the jurisdiction of the local laws. The censorship laws are going to kill the internet, because they even have the right to filter your email, and if you use SSL connections they can be terminated if there is a suspicion you are accessing illegal material. I watch jennicam and there is often scenes which would be bannned under the new laws, so I guess I will be denied Jennis' smiling face. Also as a funny aside, the source code for the Linux kernel is littered with swear words that would make it restricted.
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Considering Australians don't even have the constitutional right to free speech, have the most ill informed internet censorship rules, have a maximum of MA rating on software (under 15 only with an adult buying it), has the only national postal carrier collecting and selling customer data, has admitted to (but not stopped) Echelon, why does this suprise anyone?
Is this true? There was a recent Australian court case where it was ruled that you are allowed to make a copy of the original for the purpose of putting it on a different media, provided you retained the original and did not use it at the same time (like one for the wife on CD and one for the husband on MD).
It was underpublicised over here but at the time I thought it was a pretty cool ruling. It made most of the software houses change their licenses to allow a 'backup copy for archival purposes'.
I hate to say it, but that's nothing.
The neanderthals who imposed the Internet censorship bill on us poor Aussies expect ISPs to also apply the bill to USENET. Don't swear, don't post material that is not G rated, don't post binaries bacause ISPs will just have to cull them (what else should they do, open them all first?)
And it isn't enough to host your servers overseas - you have to filter the content being delivered as well as the content being stored.
The Australian Government has killed the Australian Internet Industry.
There are two main sticking points in the censorship law, whether you like the idea or not.
one: you must use an 'approved' filter, and if you don't your ISP must filter your connection for you and can charge you for it. Linux users may start saving now since no Linux filtering scheme is even being considered.
two: you cannot store your 'possibly' illegal content overseas, because the regulations make the ISP responsible for what you access.
It should be noted, the UK had a case where they court decided that even though the content of a site was hosted overseas, the owner was a local and was therefore under the jurisdiction of the local laws.
The censorship laws are going to kill the internet, because they even have the right to filter your email, and if you use SSL connections they can be terminated if there is a suspicion you are accessing illegal material. I watch jennicam and there is often scenes which would be bannned under the new laws, so I guess I will be denied Jennis' smiling face.
Also as a funny aside, the source code for the Linux kernel is littered with swear words that would make it restricted.