[LINK] consultation re piracy

[Jan Whitaker]

This has to be one of the most wishy-washy statements I've read in a long time:
from: 
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/download-pirates-to-launch-new-weapon-20090617-ch6c.html
The Department of Broadband has this month been meeting with ISPs in 
an effort to "brief the [Communications] minister [Stephen Conroy], 
on, possibly, how to introduce a P2P [peer-to-peer] illegal 
downloading policy for those ISPs who are prepared to 'voluntarily' 
agree with some yet to be decided ... 'guidelines"', Exetel CEO John 
Linton 
<http://johnl.blogs.exetel.com.au/index.php?/archives/2447-Impossible-Tasks-Are-The-Bane-Of-The-Pedestrian-Minded......html>revealed 
on his blog.

Jan


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