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

[Michael Keating]

For what it's worth, Telstra have a block on The Pirate Bay already.


Regards,

Michael Keating

On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 at 1:27 pm, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:

> duh s/reasonable/unreasonable
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> You can bet your bottom dollar that the ISPs in question will be arguing
> that anything beyond certain basic steps with basic equipment would be
> UNreasonable. The cost to comply is set at $50 per domain name so that must
> give you an indication of what the court thought this was worth.
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> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
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> You would just be cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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> The real questions are what happens when DNS blocks are shown to
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> be ineffective.  Is the court going to have to modify the orders.
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> Then the applicant will have to go back to the court and make the claim
> that the respondents were not complying with the order to "take
> reasonable steps to disable access".
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> You can bet your bottom dollar that the ISPs in question will be arguing
> that anything beyond certain basic steps with basic equipment would be
> UNreasonable. The cost to comply is set at $50 per domain name so that must
> give you an indication of what the court thought this was worth.
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> If it requires doing incredibly difficult stuff on every single piece of
> network with specialised equipment and highly expert engineering staff,
> then it might no longer be reasonable. Where the line beneath that falls, I
> couldn't tell.
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> Either way I think I see a mole in that hole over there...
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> And none of this includes the analysis of the almost but not quite rolling
> injunctions. What makes one "web site" the same as another torrenting file
> store?
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> *disclaimer* IANAL and I own all the seasons of GoT I've ever watched.
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> happy silly season
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> Narelle
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