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

[Mark Newton]

On Dec 16, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I would say that those who are forced to implement this should work out how effective or not these measures are.

No, it isn’t up to the recipients of the court orders to make them effective, or to care about whether they are.

Representations were made during the case about how they should be done. In the current set of orders, ACLs or spoofed DNS A-records were both fine.

> You can't argue against them or argue that costs of doing so are high without any supporting evidence. 

The time/place for tendering that evidence is during the case before the orders are produced.

Anyone who has not yet received an order will have the opportunity to make their own arguments if they ever do. Maybe start thinking about how you’d brief a barrister now.

> For example, if you believed the movie studios, then you should see a measurable and relatively significant amount of traffic disappear off of your network post implementation.

Nobody believes the movie studios.

If we believe the movie studios, this action will solve copyright infringement once and for all, and we’ll never need to be confronted with whinging bullshit from them ever again. AGD claimed the laws were critically important when they were rushed through before the election, so hey, that must mean they’re effective, right?


  - mark