Australian Gov't To Streamline Anti-Piracy Lawsuit Process 121
daria42 writes "Remember how the mass piracy lawsuits common in the U.S. are now coming to Australia? Of course you do. Well, now Australia's Government has come out backing the legal process which makes them possible — and is even promising to streamline it. Anti-piracy organisations will be jumping for joy — but I'm not sure how popular the move will be with the rest of the population."
Re:For a few dollars a month (Score:5, Insightful)
Retards (Score:5, Insightful)
We the people don't want to 'steal', otherwise KMART would have uzis at the door instead of some bored chick.
Give the people an easy way to download everything at a reasonable price ($5 new release , $1 for back catalouge), and most of piracy will go away overnight.
Making war against the consumer of your product is not a long term business strategy.
Unfortunatley, most of the MPAxx's of the world seem to be run by retards.
Re:For a few dollars a month (Score:2, Insightful)
It's not that I don't agree with what you've said, but the problem is that this behavior encompasses far more than just people committing copyright infringement.
Re:For a few dollars a month (Score:3, Insightful)
On your second point re: leaving your wifi open, you'll probably find your end legislation looks similar to what we've had put in in NZ, where you, as the 'account holder' are responsible for all activity under your account, so "My wifi was open. It was someone else", won't work.
The seedbox though, yes.
Re:Who is this government? (Score:5, Insightful)
You are actually right - one of the conditions of the mostly one sided "free trade" agreement with the USA was to let some of the broken US copyright laws in.
I don't hate the USA, I just hate that Australian IP disputes are now subject to what happens in East Texas.