[AusNOG] Internet companies forced to block The Pirate Bay, bittorrent websites in Australia, Federal Court rules

[Paul Wilkins]

Not really on topic (apologies) but we don't presently have book parallel
imports. The productivity commission are pushing it on book sellers, who
argue it will destroy the Australian publishing industry.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/plan-to-end-restrictions-on-parallel-book-imports-does-not-stack-up-20161025-gsa40d.html

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins

On 16 December 2016 at 12:20, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

>
> In message <20161216110543.N30533 at ali-syd-1.albury.net.au>, Ross Wheeler
> writes
> :
> > Artificially breaking the way the internet works in order to prop up
> > dubious business operations, through brute force methods (like court
> > orders) is not something that should be encouraged.
>
> Requiring that movies etc. be available in Australia withing N days
> of publishing anywhere in the world and allow parallel importing like
> we have for books would go a long way to addressing this issue.
>
> Mark
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