[AusNOG] iiNet - packet management versus censorship - a realistic alternative

[Jake Anderson]

Who is going to be responsible for deciding which VPN providers to 
blacklist this week?
For like $5 a month or so people can get a point and shoot VPN to tunnel 
all their illicit traffic over.
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.
Heck TPB's proxy site has a list of VPN providers already.

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?

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.
(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)
click video, login if you choose to, put in CC details, hit download, 
job done.

This is not something ISP's can do anything about, and trying is a 
wasteful exercise in futility.

On 11/06/14 13:30, Mike Ryan - Brass Razoo Group wrote:
>
> 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 see a rapid policy change.
> Applying commercial acumen to polices may result in better outcomes - 
> NBN anybody?
>
> PS - I am not trolling - but the predictable response to anything this 
> Govt does makes me very tired.
>
> Mike Ryan mike at brassrazoo.com.au <mailto:mike at brassrazoo.com.au>
>
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