Australian Piracy laws
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One of my mates was telling alot of people ofer the last few weeks, that there is a new set of anti piracy laws that will force your ISP to shut you off from the internet if they believe that you are downloading copyright materials.
My enisial recation: Oh shit. Thats not cool. But now that I have calmed down and googled, I can not find anything that relates to this. Dose anyone know about Australia's ISPs going all anti piracy on the users or if this is just a load of crap.
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If it is true, I have no idea how they will enforce it.
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At 4/28/07 04:28 AM, JarrodK wrote: If it is true, I have no idea how they will enforce it.
yeah. hope not. i download like a mofo.
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I've not heard of this, though I hope our government doesn't turn into Chinese dicks and start blocking absolutely everything. That's just taking it to far. We pay for the internet, we build the internet with our websites and domains, it is everyones right to be able to use it. If pirated stuff is hosted, it's either in countries where it's legal to do, or it's 'peer to peer' which is sharing really. Which it ENTIRELY supported by even Microsoft with the fact that files can be put into sharing folders for example to be shared over networks. You know I'm right >:(
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I hope he is bullshitting. I downloaded 70gb in one month (8mbps)
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This is where proxies will rule the future of the internet.
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They don't cut people off unless they are under police investigation and that's temporary unless the police cut off your internet privileges(they do that mainly to paedophiles and pirate distributors), in which case they have no computer so it doesn't matter.
The only evidence I have seen is that some ISPs ban certain file sharing programs but they can't keep track of them so it will never work, especially when it comes to torrents.
The good news is that these are relatively small ISPs and none of the big providers don't do this.
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At 4/28/07 04:35 AM, DoomyCheese wrote: or it's 'peer to peer' which is sharing really.
In the bible dosent it say we should share? we should be made saints not have our Internet shutdown!
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Only pissy little budget ISPs block file sharing programs the big ones who are smart don't : ) Bigpond, Optus and TPG are big companies in Australia and they don't block file sharing!
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When we ( my roommates) first moved into our condo - We received a letter from our ISP stating that we were downloading Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and some other movie. They threatend to shut us off, but warned us first.
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Malaysian gov tried to crack down porn sites and i was going "oh no, i can't go to NG cuz there's that rebecca stuff Stamper has made!" well when i got home,(I was at my hostel before that) the fist site i opened was NG. Phew. And i tried to open porn sites. It was just a stunt 3 years ago.
Thing is, no one can block your intarnets, even if he is Superman.
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At 4/28/07 06:31 AM, cybermonkey81 wrote:
Thing is, no one can block your intarnets, even if he is Superman.
Epic win. That is my new sig.
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Move to Russia. You can do anything on your computer.
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There is no DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) or equivalent laws in Australia that strictly define downloading movies/music etc as an illegal act. If your ISP decides to terminate your internet access, it is entirely at there discretion, but you aren't going to get sued by the ARIA any time soon.
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Australia has no law against downloading anything other than child porn, but it has against uploading.
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At 4/28/07 04:47 AM, JarrodK wrote: In the bible dosent it say we should share? we should be made saints not have our Internet shutdown!
At least this signature is not obsolete.
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oh noes! *checks recent downloads* oh noes!
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You could always run a proxy. JAP(Java Anon Proxy) and Tor are some good ones. They won't know what you are downloading.
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Well if your ISP has that much control that they can monitor your traffic than I wouldn't really want internet anyway.
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At 4/28/07 09:19 AM, Matt1010 wrote: Well if your ISP has that much control that they can monitor your traffic than I wouldn't really want internet anyway.
I'm pretty sure that all ISPs can monitor your download history...
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At 4/28/07 09:22 AM, HooglyBoogly wrote:At 4/28/07 09:19 AM, Matt1010 wrote: Well if your ISP has that much control that they can monitor your traffic than I wouldn't really want internet anyway.I'm pretty sure that all ISPs can monitor your download history...
They can view what sites you've been to also. I'm not sure if they can read messages people post on the BBS, but just in case: Fuck you Comcast, but thanks for the high speed. :P
