[AusNOG] "Telcos back internet piracy crackdown"

[Jacob Bisby]

While the article itself does seem contrary to positions - I can definitely
understand how it would (indirectly) have an effect on a large amount of
people, maybe not necessarily 900,000 but still:

Direct VR Employees
Freight Contracts
Distributors
Retail Outlets

Just to name a few areas...

- Jacob Bisby

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Subject: [AusNOG] "Telcos back internet piracy crackdown"

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/telcos-back-interne
t-piracy-crackdown-20140830-10a8i9.html

"The country's biggest telecommunications companies are willing to block
their customers from accessing overseas websites hosting pirated movies and
music despite concerns harmless sites could also get caught by the filter.
Telstra, Optus, iiNet, Vodafone and other internet service providers are
also ready to negotiate a scheme that would punish internet users who have
received three warnings to stop downloading content illicitly."

Anybody got a link to the submissions? It seems fairly contrary to past
positions some SPs have stated, and reads more like what Village Roadshow
would accept as a compromise position.

It also sounds to me like a bit of FUD from Village Roadshow that 900 000
people's livelihoods are impacted. That's more people than those who work in
most industries in Australia. Chicken Little much?

http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamenta
ry_Library/FlagPost/2014/February/Employment-by-industry-2012-13
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