[LINK] Green light for internet filter plans

[Adrian Chadd]

Be careful - you'll be accused of being anti-copyright. :)



Adrian

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009, rene wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:00:11 GMT, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> 
> > It appears that if the film industry (AFACT) win their current iiNet
> > ISP court case, then ISPs will be forced to implement filters. Maybe
> > Senator Conroy has inside info that AFACT may indeed win, and hence,
> > is 'getting in early' regarding widescale Aussie ISP filtering?
> 
> There has long been speculation from some quarters that the govt's 
> mandatory blocking plan is being backed/influenced/whatever by AFACT etc 
> and that it's really about blocking copyright infringement downloads.
> 
> Imo, that's a distraction from the real issues, and it's highly unlikely 
> that copyright infringement has anything whatsoever to do with the govt's 
> mandatory censorship/blocking 'plan'. Even *if* it does, there is *zero* in 
> existing BSA net censorship legislation which would enable the government 
> to require ISPs to block alleged copyright infringement material, and there 
> is no means of changing that with legislative amendments, passed by the 
> Senate, which would also have to give some government agency or government 
> approved 'independent body' power to somehow determine that any particular 
> file/material breaches copyright in the circumstances for which it is 
> published and/or downloaded by any particular person.
> 
> All indications to date are the government's intentions are plainly 
> censorship of material/information that is controversial for reasons that 
> have nothing whatsoever to do with copyright.
> 
> Irene
> 
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