[LINK] Brandis and Turnbull working on joint piracy crackdown policy

[David Boxall]

<http://www.zdnet.com/au/brandis-and-turnbull-working-on-joint-piracy-crackdown-policy-7000030239/>
> Australian Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General George Brandis have been meeting to discuss various proposals for how to crack down on Australians downloading copyright-infringing TV shows, movies, and music, including adapting the Spam Act, and graduated responses as proposed by the Communications Alliance.
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> According to emails between the Department of Communications and the Attorney-General's Department obtained  under Freedom of Information, ZDNet can reveal that the meetings have been ongoing since Brandis gave a speech in February to the Australian Digital Alliance forum outlining that the government was looking at ways to tackle online copyright infringement, including the so-called graduated response scheme that sees action against repeat infringers increase after multiple warnings, including fines, and in some countries, disconnection from the internet.
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> Brandis, who describes Australia as "the worst offender anywhere in the world" for copyright infringement, last week revealed that a group of four employees in the department are working on a number of proposals for means to deter the number of Australians using applications such as BitTorrent to share copyright-infringing material online, including one proposal for the graduated response scheme.
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