Users Betrayed as Australia Adopts a Copyright Censorship Regime

Re:Users Betrayed as Australia Adopts a Copyright Censorship... by tux1968 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:14AM (#9770296)

Don't really think people from any other county should be looking down on Australia. This is the progression in every country, just at varying degrees currently.

People will look back on the first few decades of the Internet as the wild-west era. Kids will be born knowing nothing but draconian rules and enforcement for the Internet. And the powerful elite will once again have squelched anything that challenges their dominance. Business as usual.

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Re:Users Betrayed as Australia Adopts a Copyright Censorship... by SturgeonsLaw on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @06:44AM (#9770739)

I'm glad there are others in the information war who don't share that defeatist attitude. SOPA and PIPA were defeated and the exposure of the NSA phone metadata program has spurred an unprecedented movement to encrypt the web. The fight isn't over by any means.

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Re:Users Betrayed as Australia Adopts a Copyright Censorship... by fapjacks on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @04:50AM (#9770416)

I truly believe it is a core duty of technical people to subvert this control mechanism in whatever way we can. For example by inventing and writing freeing software like Tor, FreeNet, encryption, et cetera, and educating nontechnical voters, and calling and writing our elected officials.

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Re:Users Betrayed as Australia Adopts a Copyright Censorship... by vacri on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @05:12AM (#9770478)

It's also worth noting that this kind of legislation flows from the US entertainment industry. The US leans heavily on Australia to toughen up IP laws, and there really is no grassroots movement here that's interested in them. Some would say that Murdoch is involved as well, but we do get infected with US law via treaties.

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