Seven Film Studios Want 41 Web Sites Blocked By Australian ISPs (computerworld.com.au) 43
angry tapir writes: A group of film studios is undertaking what is set to be the most significant use so far of Australia's anti-piracy laws, which allow rights holders to apply for court orders that can compel ISPs to block their customers from accessing certain piracy-linked sites. A pair of rights holders last year successfully obtained court orders forcing Australia's most popular ISPs to block a handful of sites including The Pirate Bay. Now Village Roadshow wants to have 41 more sites blocked.
Village Roadshow joined six other studios in requesting an injunction Friday in federal court, reports Computerworld. And meanwhile, "a separate site-blocking application has been launched by Australian music labels, which are seeking to have Telstra, Optus, TPG and Foxtel's broadband arm block access to Kickass Torrents."
Village Roadshow joined six other studios in requesting an injunction Friday in federal court, reports Computerworld. And meanwhile, "a separate site-blocking application has been launched by Australian music labels, which are seeking to have Telstra, Optus, TPG and Foxtel's broadband arm block access to Kickass Torrents."
Have they talked with network engineers? Once? (Score:2)
The internet, as designed, will treat this like damage to be routed around. Most people probably won't notice or at best will encounter temporary outages. Yes, of course people should get paid, however this is playing whack a mole and not coming to a practical economic solution.
How often do must we go over the same terrain. I guess, like masochists, they like it?
Re:Have they talked with network engineers? Once? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Total time it took me to get past last block. 30 seconds.
Changed DNS servers. I shit you not.
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however this is playing whack a mole and not coming to a practical economic solution.
Like speeding laws, this type of policy is not designed eliminate a particular behaviour altogether. Even with radar, speed cameras and random speed traps, people still speed right? Do you think the police should give up and just let everyone do what they like because people still speed?
By making it harder, you change the behaviour of the average person from casual offender, to premeditated, thus reducing the overall number of offenders. You also set a wider community expectation that this is not normal
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So now downloading a movie is being compared to threats of public safety?
Good old internet, there's always someone looking for a fight for no reason...
Re:Have they talked with network engineers? Once? (Score:4, Insightful)
Content is so crap at the moment, most people wont notice because it is hardly worth bothering even for free. Why waste the bandwidth ;D. Sure share the good stuff but the crap, just let it die, ugh.
Have you talked to a high school geography student (Score:2)
Australia is an island continent with a very small number of cables transferring data to Asia, across the Pacific and one across the Indian Ocean.
Given that, go talk to a network engineer and ask them how trivial it would be to block things going via half a dozen gateways owned by something like three companies, two of which have substantial ownership by governments. The people on satellite links will be exceptions but there are not
Big fat deal (Score:5, Funny)
I want a pony.
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There you go. [nocookie.net]
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Why is that in a directory labeled "streetfighter"?
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Lisa Simpson, is that you? :P
Those idiots won't be happy until it's all darknet (Score:1)
Me neither.
What a coincidence! (Score:4, Insightful)
I want theaters to block movies from seven film studios. I'm sure the studios will respect that, right?
Re: That's too many torrent sites to look at. (Score:1)
Rarbg is worthy.
Twitch is one of them? (Score:2)
I bet twitch is one? lol
https://www.twitch.tv/depravo [twitch.tv]
Ever notice how Hollywood (Score:4, Interesting)
Is the tail that wags the dog ? At least when it comes to trade and foreign policy ?
I have no trouble defending people's property rights but just how much does it cost to defend Hollywood's business model ?
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I'm sure someone could do the same for global sales.
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Thanks intuition is nice, but numbers are much better.
Why this won't work ... (Score:2)
... the maths:
Seven Film Studios Want 41 Web Sites Blocked By Australian ISPs [about 20 [wikipedia.org]]
Know what's smarter than seven film studios and about 20 major ISPs?
20,268,164 Australians [wikipedia.org] with a goddam computer.
Trainspotting (Score:1)
has anyone seen a torrent link for Trainspotting II
I can't afford a cinema ticket
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Then just wait. If you can't afford a cinema ticket, you can wait until it hits the video rental places and then rent it. If that's too expensive, and you have Netflix, you can wait for that too. If you still can't afford that, wait for it to be shown on TV for free.
Kickass? (Score:2)
Australia was (Score:1)
Wasting their time (Score:1)