Aussie Attorney General Pressured on Three-Strikes Secrecy
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[quote]In a speech back in February, Australia’s Attorney-General George Brandis indicated that the Government had plans to crack down on Internet piracy. Not only was consideration being given to the introduction of a “three strikes” style regime, but ISPs could be required to block access to so-called ‘pirate’ sites.
This week, in a session of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, the topic was raised by Senator Scott Ludlam of the Australian Greens. With the Attorney General and his team sat immediately opposite him, Ludlam asked Brandis about current Government copyright policy.
“Unlike the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, France and many other comparable countries, Australia lacks any effective protection against online piracy,” Brandis said.
“Australia, I’m sorry to say, is the worst offender of any country in the world when it comes to piracy, and i’m very concerned that the legitimate rights and interests of rightsholders and content creators are being compromised by that activity.”
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[quote]Australia, I’m sorry to say, is the worst offender of any country in the world when it comes to piracy[/quote]
I am calling bullshit on that one. Is there any hard evidence on that compared to Russia or China?
Yes, clearly the answer to our already heavily restricted access to media is further restrictions.
Perfect.
If he's looked at how the US and UK have been handling it, then he should know already that it's a useless system and it has done nothing to combat piracy.
Methinks this guy is being 'persuaded', but I might be exaggerating.
funnily enough not only are the country that pirates the most, but we also pay more for most electronics AND have to wait months to get them here!
HMM MAYBE THESE COULD BE CONNECTED SOMEHOW.
Have we not learnt from the British? Their piracy website ban has done jack shit you can access the pirates bay and other torrent search engines through a million proxies
And no, fuck off with the three strike system iiNet already won the argument that ISP's do not need to look after their customers when it comes to this shit and they aren't responsible for it either
[editline]31st May 2014[/editline]
Here's something they could do, perhaps remove the fucking monopoly foxtel has on the subscription television service???
Oh no wait can't do that, Rupert Murdoch might turn their newspapers against them :-(
So I watched the vid and it's basically the attorney general just sittin' around jerking off and not saying anything of substance. Fuckin' typical.
Senator Scott Ludlam just about roasted him. That was great.
I [url=http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/24t12n/petition_stop_blaming_consumers_for_the_outdated/chajz4r]mentioned in Reddit a while back[/url] what needs to change in order for piracy to be cut right down:
[quote]How hard is it for big companies to understand that the general consumer of today wants:
A. Timely content that is in-line with other countries release dates
B. Content that doesn't impose unreasonable regional-pricing markups
C. Content that can easily be downloaded from the comfort of our own home
D. Content that be purchased on a case-by-case basis. Provide the option for "genre packages", but also allow customers the option of getting exactly the content they need without anything else they don't want
E. Content that is purchased ONCE, can be re-downloaded as many times as wanted and played on any device we own (Phones, Tablets, Laptops, PC's, Media Centers)
A, B, C, D & E. Watch "Australias piracy epidemic" drop sharply.[/quote]
It's just like they've said "Internet and digital distribution? Naw I don't accept that, we'll go back to video stores and newspapers before you can say 'fat cash cow'!".
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