Australian Law Proposal to Turn ISPs Into Copyright Cops
There’s 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 get Australian ISPs to monitor their networks for p2p activity and hand all their information to copyright holders.
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Aussie ISP Wants to Ban P2P Traffic on Off-Peak Hours
When it comes to Australian ISP stories, Australia isn’t exactly void of a number of horror stories. Things like particularly low monthly bandwidth caps and only being able to download during certain hours of the day to name a couple comes to mind. Now, one Australian ISP wants to further push out all [...]
Aussie ISPs: “Net Filtering Doesn’t Slow Connection Speeds”
Majority of participants in govt’s blacklist trial report that customers experienced minimal speed disruptions.
Australia’s Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy is certainly happy these days with news that his plans for a “voluntary mandatory” Net filtering plan has had a minimal effect on the connection speeds of a majority of [...]
Aussie Govt to Filter Online Video Games
Downloadable games, flash-based games, and sites that sell physical copies of games with rating greater than MA15+ (suitable for 15yos) would be blocked, even for adults.
Australia’s ridiculous plan to censor the Internet gets more ridiculous by the day.
It all started as a voluntary effort to “protect children,” but quickly spiraled into an all out [...]
Masthead Editorials Critical of Canadian Surveillance Legislation
There’s a pair of editorials found in two major news outlets in Canada that are critical of the new surveillance legislation the Conservative government of Canada tables in parliament. Both seem to agree that the potential for abuse exists with the new “tools” that would be granted to police. We look at a [...]
Aussie Christian Group Demands Mandatory Porn Filtering
Angry govt seemingly backpedaling from its plan to force ISPs to block porn and other content deemed “inappropriate” for kids.
The Australian Christian Lobby is angry over recent testimony by Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy in which he seemed to signal that the govt is backpedaling from plans for mandatory Internet filtering in the country.
They want [...]
Aussie Net Filtering to be “Voluntary Mandatory”
Senator Conroy mocked over suggestion that ISPs could all voluntarily agree to mandatory filtering of Internet connections.
It’s been a long battle between Australia’s Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy and those opposed to his plans for mandatory Internet filtering, but at last the scheme may be coming to an end as suggested during testimony given by Senator [...]
Public Forum on Internet Filtering This Monday in Australia
Internet filtering on the ISP level has been taking hold in some countries around the world. While not as widespread as the so-called “Three Strikes and Your Out” proposals against unauthorized file-sharing, the internet filtering for many digital rights advocates remains to be an important issue. This is why a public forum on [...]
MPAA SHOCKER: “PreVail” Cammer Gets Small Fine, No Jail Time
Gets off easy, had faced up to 90 years imprisonment and over $1 million USD in fines for copyright infringement.
The MPAA and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) have suffered an unusually embarrassing blow with news that 26yo Craig Farrugia of Australia was freed after pleading guilty to 18 counts of copyright infringement, and [...]
Australian ISP Defending BitTorrent-Using Subscribers in Court
Refuses to admit customers engage in copyright infringement, and questioned whether it’s one-to-one nature and transfer of pieces of a work rather than it’s whole qualifies as making them “available to the public” in violation of copyright law.
iiNet, Australia’s 3rd largest ISP, has been quietly defending BitTorrent-using broadband subscribers there in Federal Court.
The Australian Federation [...]
