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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/06/2015 5:23 AM, Paul Wilkins
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<div>Really it's not that bad. They've seen fit to allow for a
test of reasonableness. Perhaps after the data retention
shenanigans, they're waiting for the dust to settle. This act
will make for some interesting discussions around what is
reasonable: if it's not reasonable to withdraw routes, and
it's not reasonable to block IPs or do DPI, what else is
there? I'm already looking forward to the first test case.<br>
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However, if *you* are the first test case, how do you plan to show
to the court what you interpreted as reasonable, and how you tried
to use reasonable means? The court order won't tell you what
'reasonable' might mean, or what measures might be considered
unreasonable. The content organisation that asked for the injunction
certainly won't tell you.<br>
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Situation: you are presented with an injunction to use 'reasonable
steps to disable access' to the URL:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fileshare.eu/?movie=someblockbusterflick.mp4">http://www.fileshare.eu/?movie=someblockbusterflick.mp4</a>.<br>
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Lets say <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.fileshare.eu">www.fileshare.eu</a> is hosted on AWS in all regions. <br>
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Answer: What do you consider is going to be reasonable for your
organisation to do to comply? and if you don't think what you will
do will be effective in achieving the blocking, how do you propose
to convince the judge that you did everything reasonable when the
content industry brings you back to to the judge to tell her you
failed to comply with the injunction? How will you explain that you
thought withdrawing routes or blocking IPs was not reasonable?<br>
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(Its interesting that the requirement to redirect the access attempt
to a splash-page identifying the block and the requestor of the
block didn't make it into the final legislation. A site blocked in
error still has no way of finding out they have been blocked, except
for a puzzling drop in traffic to troubleshoot)<br>
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Better have a plan in place for when the first injunction comes
through the door and you find you are the first test-case.<br>
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Paul.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 June 2015 at 18:34, Damian Guppy
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<div dir="ltr">Given the impact this is going to have on
ISP's I am surprised I haven't seen this discussed much on
here.
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<div>Maybe infrastructure upgrades to support this
blocking can be rolled into the upgrades for Metadata
retention. I am sure the legislation is pretty vague
about how the blocking will need to happen (URL vs IP vs
DNS).</div>
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target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/australian-senate-passes-controversial-antipiracy-websiteblocking-laws-20150622-ghuorh.html</a><span
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