It looks like Australia is going to get its own version of the three strikes law for alleged copyright offenders.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/1251201/Australia-Considering-P2P-Three-Strikes-Law?from=rss
What it boils down to is that your ISP will have to act as a private policeman for the publishers. There's several things severely wrong with this, that are evident from the French implementation of this law.
- It takes three accusations to cut you off from the internet for a year on any provider.
- The accusations don't require proof. Any false positive will do.
- The ISP will have to pay for all this policing themselves. Extra costs that the subscribers will have to cough up.
- There is no legal recourse. All disputes will be handled by a private ombudman appointed by the publishers... guess how fair that will be.
I fear that however much we protest, the music corporations will eventually buy this law, like they did in France. Together with senator the honorable mister Conroy's porn-filter, I am left wondering why the authorities are doing their best to stifle the only growth economy left?
They won't be happy until they shut down the Internet completely... then they'll mourn the loss.
But...I thought we were smarter than this...
Then again, if the ISP has to pay for it, and do it all themselves, they'll likely not bother. They know that this stuff can only hurt their business.
So we will need to encrypt our traffic and and slow our connections even more i guess.
Interesting point that the ISP has to pay for it themselves, I wounder how the authorities will conclude that an ISP is compliant with this.
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