Comments on: Australian Law Proposal to Turn ISPs Into Copyright Cops

By: Australian Law Proposal to Turn ISPs Into Copyright Cops | External Brain

Australian Law Proposal to Turn ISPs Into Copyright Cops | External Brain — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:40:07 +0000

[...] a disturbing new development in Australia. A law proposal was disclosed to the public that would get ISPs to spy on the contents of all communications to monitor for compliance. Presumably, the amendments would [...]

By: Aussie Study: 98.1% of BitTorrent Files Illegal

Aussie Study: 98.1% of BitTorrent Files Illegal — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:44:49 +0000

[...] years now AFACT has been trying to get ISPs to become copyright cops and filter P2P traffic on their networks, a proposal ISPs have long rejected. It once even tried to [...]

By: anon

anon — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:30:15 +0000

The government is trying to use copyright infringement as an excuse to spy on people. This is immoral and despicable.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:20:46 +0000

Essentially your writing pattern is as such:

1) Write a false speculation with intention to offend regardless of current knowledge.
2) Use a blatant lie in order to produce a false speculation and attack your audience.
3) Attack your audience by whatever means.
4) Add filler into your ‘argument’ with more false speculations that may or may not logically follow.
5) Attack your audience by whatever means whether what you write is factually true or logically follow or not.
6) Same as 5) but at about half the strength or is a continuation.
7) End by writing something lame.

For instance (although for this case, in this post you don’t attack):

“Piracy gives government one very bad choice. Either everything digital is to be routinely ransacked and rendered valueless, and the promise of digital distribution will also be lost, or, they must create an online police state filtering everything, and punish law breakers beyond their wildest fears to make examples and deter others.”

Definitely offensive and naive.

2,3) –

“There is no valid grey area. And because privacy is not a guaranteed right but rather a privilege until it is abused and taken away, (like being in jail, for instance) it only remains viable when it is respected, but not when used as a cover for breaking the law. Pirates will be held to blame for laws like this in the long run.”

Reality laughs at your face.

5) –

6,7)

“You give government a very bad choice but make no mistake, they are making it. And they will.”

Yawn. Maybe if you stopped making things up, then perhaps other readers will take you seriously.

By: JDR

JDR — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:32:29 +0000

Brandon L you don’t understand. Australia is a two party dictatorship, and religion definitely doesn’t decide who is elected. The reason we get the same a$$holes every time is because of the welfare system, and because voting is mandatory. If I could, I would secede, cos this shithole is getting worse as the days go by.
And all because of the sheer arrogance of the gov’t. They tried to get their hands on some supers in NSW, but turned out the supers belonged to some judges, who went promptly to court. Good for them, they won.
So basically, they tax you all your working life, and then try to steal your super, and then charge you tax on your funeral, and then your gone, and the gov’t has spent 80 years(if that’s how long you lived) feeding off you.
It’s just like the Matrix, except instead of being grown for energy, you’re being grown for money.
Stamp duty is ONLY a revenue raiser. that is the one and only purpose it serves. Then you look at stamp duty on your house, car, and everything else you ever bought….. Then you have to pay the gov’t to let you own a house, then you have to pay to keep the house, then you have to pay the gov’t to buy a car, then you pay to own the car. It goes on, and on, and on.
love the country but I HATE THE GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA.
They get to do whatever they like to you, and you don’t get to do a damn thing about it. I’m not an angry person, but I’d love to have a good civil war right….NOW.

Thomas Jefferson said, when the people fear the gov’t, that’s tyranny. when the gov’t fears the people, that’s liberty.

See, you ought to be able to tell the government what to do, they don’t get that.
If the government starts acting like the a$$hole it is, little tiny us should have a process of law where we step up there and say, BACK OFF, WE DON’T LIKE YOU ANYMORE.

By: indigetesdii.org :: blog » More snooping and punishing

indigetesdii.org :: blog » More snooping and punishing — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:21:27 +0000

[...] new law proposal, the Australian government wants to make ISPs (internet service providers) spy on every packet passing through their customers’ internet connections (mirror) to find out who’s committing the dreadful sin of copyright infringement; and then [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:24:54 +0000

It’s time for a bill of rights, pure and simple. The right of privacy needs to be enshrined in the constitution so that the government’s hands are tied. This sort of malarkey should not exist in a democratic country. We do live in a democracy, right? Because it seems as though we are drifting towards a police state. First clean-feed, now this. How about, oh, I don’t know, FIXING THE DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE and then leaving us the hell alone? I’m really getting tired of this war on the internet the government is embarking upon. Last time I vote for a major party – they can all go F&$! themselves.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:10:05 +0000

Of course it is bad “in and of itself,” but it is ALSO rather pointless.

By: soultx

soultx — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:47:54 +0000

No. It IS bad “in and of itself”. If you don’t understand why then you deserve to live under such a regime.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:58:37 +0000

Digital content isnt valueless, just ask Apple. it’s making money hand over fist with iTunes!

Plus, even the best of filtering technology is easily circumventab;e. MP#s can be turned into .JPEGs or can simply be attached to e-mails well beyond the reach of govt.

Its not so much that filtering is bad in and of itself but rather that it’s so pointless.