Comments on: Aussie Movie & TV Industry Sues ISP for Allowing P2P Piracy

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

You gotta be kidding me. I think ISPs in several countries are now thankful they don’t reside in Australia right now.

By: manakazero

manakazero — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Reminds me of Ted Stevens “the internet is a series of tubes!” Lawmakers just don’t get it and one-sided lobbying doesn’t help either.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The internet can be viewed as a series of tubes that was no the flaw in Ted Stevens presentation. His gaff was in his failure was his incompetence in being able to explain the internet using the tubes analogy and clearly demonstrating his lack of understanding the topic. He clearly thought that his email transfers were being heavily hindered by torrent traffic which is incredibly misguided.

As for this ruling its another politician paid for by the entertainment industry. Every country has one and most have sadly been influential at one time or another. Hopefully as the older politicians get replaced with new blood the generations that fully understand the implications of intellectual property and the internet will help fix the ridiculous imbalances.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Never post without proof reading just ignore the multiple spelling and grammar related errors in my previous post.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The edit button is a wonderful thing.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Don’t know about your screen but mine lacks an edit button.

By: bardsidhe

bardsidhe — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I am curious about the fact that only IInet has been singled out in this law suit why only this one ISP when ALL ISP’s are “allowing” access through thier services to the content that the suing parties are objecting to.. seems like a witch hunt to me
not only that IInet is one of Australia’s largest independant ISP’s which rival Telstra’s Bigpond and OptusNet.

I may be wrong here as well but I heard that IInet are actually from New Zealand.. but to single out 1 single ISP in this is wrong.

but I guess the money makers in this court case are more concerned about the loss of their projected earning of 5 ferrari’s instead of the millions they make inspite of ‘piracy’
(research has shown that DVD’s and Cinema continue to make groing profits inspite of file sharing…

By: toliman

toliman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

iinet’s a west australian group that turned national. they started out small and bought up a lot of smaller ISP’s including the NZ ihug iiborg is doing well though with ~25 former ISP’s so far.

i think they believe somehow that by refusing a AFACT request for customer information and refusing to deliver infringement notices is “encouraging piracy”. when it’s just enabling state privacy legislation. and common sense. customer info like that should be private or you never know who is going to use your login information not just anti-piracy groups but spammers scammers thieves and litigious groups with ties to large corporations etc.

allowing *any* private corporation access if they just ask politely or write a nasty letter with a coversheet & letterhead from a lawyer is so stupid as to be criminal in itself.