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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Who is going to be responsible for
deciding which VPN providers to blacklist this week?<br>
For like $5 a month or so people can get a point and shoot VPN to
tunnel all their illicit traffic over.<br>
You can bet the first time they receive an "infringement" letter
their first set of angry google results will contain a whole mess
of VPN providers advertising in the sidebar and reviews of them in
the search results.<br>
Heck TPB's proxy site has a list of VPN providers already.<br>
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At that point you have people paying money for a service, how
likely are they to pay for fetchtv or itunes or whatever instead
then?<br>
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If Hollywood wants to stop piracy they need to make getting
content legally at least as easy as getting it illegally, anything
else is too easy to circumvent technologically and you will damage
everybody's business in the attempt.<br>
(signing up for services that want your mothers maiden name and
every possible detail of your life does not count as easy, DRM
does not count as easy, Australia tax offends on principle)<br>
click video, login if you choose to, put in CC details, hit
download, job done. <br>
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This is not something ISP's can do anything about, and trying is a
wasteful exercise in futility.<br>
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On 11/06/14 13:30, Mike Ryan - Brass Razoo Group wrote:<br>
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<div align="left">Let's just suppose instead of responding
predictably (outraged!) we propose a viable alternative?
The police want ISP's to archive log files? No problem.
Here is the monthly charge Police Minister for
administration and data storage costs. Government requires
ISP's to manage and block traffic? No problem. Here is the
monthly charge for providing this service. When the
reality dawns that these tasks cost big money then we may
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<div align="left">Applying commercial acumen to polices may
result in better outcomes - NBN anybody? </div>
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<div align="left">PS - I am not trolling - but the predictable
response to anything this Govt does makes me very tired. </div>
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<div align="left">Mike Ryan <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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