Australia Latest To Consider Kicking People Off The Internet For File Sharing
from the three-strikes-and-your-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot dept
Never let it be said that the entertainment industry lobby isn't comprehensive. Over the past decade plus of watching them at work, you begin to see some patterns that are unmistakable. When the industry has a new idea it plans to push through as a law, it quietly works the concept through a variety of politicians around the world, and then will have one representative of the industry slip the concept into conversation at a public event somewhere. Then, while everyone's debating the concept, it suddenly shows up in pre-written legislation around the world before anyone knows what's going on. That appears to be happening again. Over the summer, entertainment industry execs (mainly from NBC Universal) started buzzing about how ISPs needed to take more responsibility for punishing those who were sharing unauthorized files on their networks. It seemed so outlandish that people were kind of surprised that it was even brought up. But then the laws started popping up. First there was a French proposal that would have ISPs ban users after being caught sharing unauthorized files three times. Then a similar proposal popped up in the UK last week. Now, down in Australia the government is now considering a similar proposal. Rest assured that these ideas didn't suddenly occur to the politicians in each of these countries.
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Filed Under: australia, bans, copyright, file sharing, isp, mpaa, riaa, three strikes
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It's a great idea
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Re: It's a great idea
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ha ha ha!!
Can someone remind me again why the isps give us 8 - 16 m/bits of bandwith, is it so we can do Windows updates? send email or just swap each others Wedding videos.
Nah it's a rubbish idea. NEXT!!
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So this would also include companies doing the same thing. This could get fun if it happens getting large corporations kicked off the net indefinitely for posting any unauthorized content.
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Maybe politicians should start looking out for the PEOPLE instead of corporations?
Maybe we should just ban politicians that take this dirty money?
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quagmire
When everything on the Internet is copyrighted, it shouldn't be very long until everyone has shared an unauthorized file.
How does the ISP know it is unauthorized ? Because "they" said so ?
How do you know she is really a witch ? She is not a witch if she sinks and drowns .......
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Hell, when you sign up for an online email account like hotmail, they even tell you in the usage terms that they technically own all the email you send and recieve through their servers.
Its bullocks!
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Then the Aus government will have to install software on people's computers to track everything they do.
It's already illegal to own more than 5 porn movies in some parts of Aus. Heaven forbid they find out what's on most people's hard drives.
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Watch as weeks later...
Watch as, weeks to months later, tens of thousands of teenagers are grounded because they terminated the family internet account.
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Re: Watch as weeks later...
Watch as, weeks to months later, somebody creates a virus that starts using the vast network of zombie PCs already in existence to start sharing illegal files with no other purpose than to get users cut off.
Watch as, weeks to months later, the lawsuits from innocent people being cut off - either due to this virus or by flawed detection techniques - start to hit.
Watch as, weeks to months later, a significantly sized business gets hit and the government retracts the ban...
Most likely outcome IMHO.
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Precisely
Which would be a major win. After all, what's better from their perspective? Burning disks (which cost money) and sharing them with a dozen or so friends (at most), or running a torrent and "sharing" the same files with 1,000 or so "friends".
Back in the early days of VHS, people "shared" copies of tapes, but there was a natural limit as to how much time, money, and effort the average person was willing to spend in order to do so.
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ISPs
heres the link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7246403.stm
hope the Ausies do the same
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it starts
Of course I could be worng. maybe one day the "industry" will wake up and realize that file sharing is the best opportunity that they have ever had. Probably not, but I can dream.
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first the music
than the movies
than ANY P2P network traffic
hell lets just KIll the internet for any NON-business / government / school users
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