EFA Responds to Professor Over Net Filtering
Says that the professor who insinuated that an unfiltered internet had no place in a democracy is misrepresenting the issue.
Yesterday, we highlighted a professor who called people at the EFA “Extremists” on Australian IT. Now, Electronic Frontier Australia has issued a response to what they consider, among other things, misrepresentations he published.
The EFA says [...]
Professor – Unfiltered Internet Has No Place in a Democracy
Says people like the Electronic Frontier Australia are a bunch of extremists.
It may be difficult for some to read what this professor has published in Australian IT without noting a certain amount of irony, but a he has essentially said that the internet doesn’t belong to people who have “Libertarian” beliefs. It does seem [...]
Australian Internet Filtering Plan Will Be Mandatory for Everyone – No Opt-Out
After the internet filtering trial, there will be no such thing as opting out of the internet filters.
The internet filtering plan from Australia seems to keep getting more and more disturbing. Clear back in 2007, the word from Australia said that the internet filters will become mandatory for all Australians following the trials currently [...]
Protesters Hit the Streets Over Australian Internet Censorship Proposals
Australian digital rights organizations are applauding the high turnout in a country-wide demonstration against proposed Australian internet blacklists.
The Electronic Frontiers Australia recently applauded the high turnout for protests against proposed censorship laws that would block access to websites deemed by the government as “inappropriate”.
From the press release:
“The forthcoming protests by the Digital Liberty Coalition and [...]
Report – ACTA Stalled Amid War Between Australian ISPs and Copyright Industry
While on the surface, it appears to be a standard report on the ISPs refusing to comply with the idea of being the copyright police, a section of a very interesting report suggests that the ACTA negotiations have been stalled.
It may be an old story being repeated over and over again in Australia, but a [...]
AFACT – Downloading Movies More Lucrative Than Heroin
Sometimes, news reports end up being merely propaganda for anti-piracy efforts. Sometimes, these efforts spread blatantly false information – we look at one of the latest efforts out of Australia.
There’s a difference (some say social, others say financial and a few say there’s no difference at all) between burning and selling DVD’s of movies [...]
Australian ISPs Still Rejects Idea of Becoming Copyright Police
Trying for force ISPs into becoming copyright police seems to be a hot trend for the copyright industry these days. Then again, ISPs rarely are willing to go for the idea of solving another industries problem and Australia is no exception.
There’s a report from ABC Australia which highlights an ongoing issue in Australia where [...]
Australian Study – ISP Level Filters Improved, but Insufficient for P2P
The timing couldn’t have been better. A new study coming out of Australia has concluded that content filtering technology has shown significant improvement, but couldn’t tell the difference between legal and illegal content over a file-sharing network.
In Britain, there is this distinct rush to implement mandatory content filtering whether ISPs want to or not. [...]
Australia hands over man to US courts
BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had pirated software produced by American companies.
Now, having been given up to the US by former justice minister Chris Ellison, Griffiths, 44, is in a Virginia cell, facing up to 10 [...]
Do delays in TV programming cause piracy?
A new Australian study says “huge delays” in airing overseas TV programming locally are to blame for an increase in piracy in the Land Down Under.
The UK’s Sky TV blunder back in 2004, where a delay in airing it in the United States by some 3 months led to its widespread distribution over P2P [...]
