[AusNOG] Meta Data Encryption

[James Andrewartha]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Julian De Marchi wrote:

> http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/billsdgs/3733407/upload_binary/3733407.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf#search=%22legislation/billsdgs/3733407%22
> 
> There is this beauty on page 51 last paragraph is this:
> 
> " First ‘as a number of service providers have acknowledged’ the
> telecommunications services offered enable‘ serious criminal activity
> and threats to national security’ and hence there‘ is an argument that
> service providers should bear some of the cost of addressing these
> external harms’ that their services facilitate."
> 
> Which I find rather insulting.

You'll be insulted by BBC Worldwide Australia Pty Ltd too:

http://www.commsalliance.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/48412/BBC-Worldwide.pdf

It is now generally accepted that an ISP "is an inevitable actor in any
transmission of an infringement over the internet between one of its 
customers and a third party, since, in granting access to the network, it 
makes that transmission possible”. It is therefore not controversial to 
characterise any costs that may be borne by ISPs in undertaking 
anti-piracy activities as “a cost of carrying on that business”.

Perhaps we can start taxing private toll roads on the basis that they 
enable drug deals to happen and criminals to get to and from the scenes of 
their crimes.

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