It's never going to work -_-
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The government has promised to make ‘‘significant’’ changes to Australia’s copyright laws as a first-term commitment, although a spokesman for Arts Minister and Attorney General George Brandis said there was no firm timetable for this. The topic is also battling for attention ahead of the federal budget.
The first proposal would force ISPs to send out warning letters to alleged file-sharers, while other legislation will mean sites such as The Pirate Bay, which facilitate illegal downloading, would be blocked by local Internet service providers, who in the past have fought in court against such a move.
Australians are the among the most active illegal downloaders in the world, with stats from file-sharing monitor TorrentFreak showing that 11.6% of all global illegal downloads of Season 3 of Game of Thrones came from Australia, by far the highest per-capita piracy rate of any country.
Many blame this on the lack of content available legally here. Sites like Netflix have not launched in Australia, and free-to-air broadcasters are generally still slower to air new series than Foxtel, for example. Many viewers are driven to illegal content because of the unavailability of an alternative.
Australia's second-largest ISP, Perth-based iiNet, has already rejected both government proposals as costly and ineffective. ''We do not support graduated response schemes or blocking websites,'' iiNet's chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby said in February.
[I]''They are pointless, cost-generating proposals with no benefit. The content industry says copyright infringement costs them thousands of millions of dollars a year yet they are not prepared to fund this work.''[/I]
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[url]http://www.smh.com.au/business/online-piracy-crackdown-looms-20140505-37r3g.html[/url]
[quote]by far the highest per-capita piracy rate of any country.[/quote]
That would have something to do with getting TV shows and movies later than everyone else.
[QUOTE=download;44796065]That would have something to do with getting TV shows and movies later than everyone else.[/QUOTE]
and the fact tv shows and movies are overpriced
[QUOTE=Rexxasaurus;44796073]and the fact tv shows and movies are overpriced[/QUOTE]
..and the monopolization/limited access to services.
Australia really seems to be going down the toliet :/ I haven't seen their government make any sort of promising action in months.
Man, such a genius move.
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[QUOTE=Occlusion;44796085]Australia really seems to be going down the toliet :/ I haven't seen their government make any sort of promising action in months.[/QUOTE]
Thank Abbott.
[QUOTE=Novangel;44796089]Thank Abbott.[/QUOTE]
The question is..
Why was he voted in?
[QUOTE=download;44796065]That would have something to do with getting TV shows and movies later than everyone else.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Rexxasaurus;44796073]and the fact tv shows and movies are overpriced[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Bradyns;44796081]..and the monopolization/limited access to services.[/QUOTE]
And people wonder why piracy happens so much here. It's difficult to build up a good library of movies when you're getting fucked over.
[QUOTE]thousands of millions of dollars a year[/QUOTE]
First of all, why not just write "billions of dollars"?
Secondly, that's a number pulled straight out of one's ass if I've ever seen one. How do they want to calculate this? And fucking hell, billions? Really?
[QUOTE=KennyAwsum;44796101]The question is..
Why was he voted in?[/QUOTE]
Because "Hurr Durr, the labor party had infighting, so let's vote liberal because we don't know any better."
[QUOTE=KennyAwsum;44796101]The question is..
Why was he voted in?[/QUOTE]
He wasn't voted in because people wanted him, he was voted in because people didn't want the other person. And people were stupid.
[QUOTE=megafat;44796106]Because "Hurr Durr, the labor party had infighting, so let's vote liberal because we don't know any better."[/QUOTE]
at least some of that stupidity went to Mr Clive Palmer
[QUOTE=KennyAwsum;44796101]The question is..
Why was he voted in?[/QUOTE]
They made alot of promises before the election, but the problem is that they've broken heaps of them.
[QUOTE=KennyAwsum;44796101]The question is..
Why was he voted in?[/QUOTE]
Labor kept being stupid and swapping their leader every time their polls went south, so they were voted out.
They've tried multiple times to crack down on piracy, and they've either failed or been defeated in the courts.
The people who want this don't care about promises, they want results and this won't appease them at all. Additionally it's one more strike against the government from the enormous number of people who do it and just promising it is enough to piss them off. This is a bad move on every front.
they tried this in nz. it doesn't work :v:
Kowtowing to America's corporate interests again, who woulda thunkit.
Hah, "stopping piracy".
Good luck.
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The Australian Gov. will waste so much money on this.
[QUOTE=megafat;44796106]Because "Hurr Durr, the labor party had infighting, so let's vote liberal because we don't know any better."[/QUOTE]
And because the Liberals had a massive advertising campaign going "WE WENT FROM A SURPLUS TO A DEBT UNDER LABOR! AND IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF THE GFC AT ALL, IT WAS TOTALLY ALL LABOR'S FAULT! IN FACT, IF WE'D BEEN AROUND, THE GFC WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN HAPPENED BECAUSE WE'RE THE BEST AT ECONOMICS! VOTE FOR US WE'LL FIX THE ECONOMY!" that fooled a lot of people.
I imagine the late Stephen Conroy is aggressively beating his meat in a maccas toilet stall to any newspaper clippings of this proposal he can get his hands on. Seriously though we all know this isnt going to work. Time to start investing in cryptographic browsers.
[QUOTE=MrBunneh;44796274]they tried this in nz. it doesn't work :v:[/QUOTE]
Services such as spotify/steam (and basically any other online games distributor) have done a far better job of reducing the amount I have pirated than these empty threats.
While your trying to do stuff with the internet and failing can you just fucking make it faster already you big eared prick
[QUOTE=Nemisis116;44796374]While your trying to do stuff with the internet and failing can you just fucking make it faster already you big eared prick[/QUOTE]
but then the pirates will pirate faster
reduce the internet back to dial-up speed and most of the pirates will drop off. fool-proof plan
[QUOTE=Hamsterjuice;44796404]but then the pirates will pirate faster
reduce the internet back to dial-up speed and most of the pirates will drop off. fool-proof plan[/QUOTE]
I have Dial-Up, I downloaded a 1.8GB file in about a hour. It isn't that slow.
How to fix piracy in Australia by fruxodaily:
- Get rid of Foxtel's monopoly on the pay TV industry by forcing them to have their own channels (Fox8, Comedy Channel, 111 etc.) on other television subscription services
- Don't touch the fucking NBN
- Bring in a service like Netflix in Australia that is cheap, affordable and works well with our Internet
- Force TV channels internationally to stop treating Australia like dickheads and give episodes of shows to networks [B][U]as soon as their released[/U][/B]
- Force Hollywood and other production companies to stop delaying movies for up to 2-4 weeks to get more $$$ (because THIS leads to piracy you cunts)
- Don't touch pirate search engines
- Improve Freeview by limiting the amount of datacasting channels because you know shit's ridiculous when there's about 6+ datacasting channel on freeview and they wonder why people still buy Foxtel
who voted abbott anyway? everyone I asked voted for kevin rudd, why was abbott more popular? the promises he made?
fuck off
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[QUOTE=KennyAwsum;44796101]The question is..
Why was he voted in?[/QUOTE]
people like my parents
even they fucking agree with me now that abbot is a shithead
[QUOTE=Sio;44797002]-snip-[/QUOTE]
Holy crap, that scared the shit out of me.
Tag it man.
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