The Hollywood studios have lost a landmark case against the ISP iiNet today after an eight-week trial.
The case would have impacted how Australian ISPs would have had to react to potential pirates, but the judge ruled that iiNet was not responsible for the downloading habits of any of its subscribers.
Justice Cowdroy said all the evidence showed that iiNet was simply providing Internet ... [ read the full article ]
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The Australian gov is looking to take over the POTS and ISPs networks.
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And you got this information from where? Give me a link I wanna read this.
]I know the government was considering providing an internet service.i think they wanted to start there own cable internet service but that got scrapped 3months ago.
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The Australian gov is looking to take over the POTS and ISPs networks.
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I know the government was considering providing an internet service.i think they wanted to start there own cable internet service but that got scrapped 3months ago.And the filtering. I can not see the government taking control of the ISP's networks. Way to costly for the purpose. Look at logic Telstra, iiNet, Optus, Internode, iPrimus, Pacnet and more could you imagine the cost of taking over their network plus the other 200 odd companies
Quote:The Australian gov is looking to take over the POTS and ISPs networks.
And you got this information from where? Give me a link I wanna read this.
I just can't believe, I just read this as a question.
I'll assume your from the US and don't know anything.
Currently the Australian Labour Government has set aside 42 billion AUD to buy out networks and roll out fibire optic cables the POTS network which is what the Telco industry call the telephone network or local loop for another term.
The Australian Government is looking to basicly split up Telstra into a retail and then keep it's network for itself and place it into the company they have set up called NBNco (national Broadband Network)
The plan is to run fiber optic cable out to the local nodes (which is a baby exchange along the road) and then have all telephone and network lines run out via the old POTS network, this will give full ADSL2+ speeds.
Though a lot of people/companies are wanting the Government to go the whole way with Fiber and give higher speeds.
Currently it's still at the starting stage where they are doing tenders etc some work is supposed to be happening now but what that is exactly not sure.
Quote:The Australian gov is looking to take over the POTS and ISPs networks.
And you got this information from where? Give me a link I wanna read this.
I just can't believe, I just read this as a question.
I'll assume your from the US and don't know anything.
Currently the Australian Labour Government has set aside 42 billion AUD to buy out networks and roll out fibire optic cables the POTS network which is what the Telco industry call the telephone network or local loop for another term.
The Australian Government is looking to basicly split up Telstra into a retail and then keep it's network for itself and place it into the company they have set up called NBNco (national Broadband Network)
The plan is to run fiber optic cable out to the local nodes (which is a baby exchange along the road) and then have all telephone and network lines run out via the old POTS network, this will give full ADSL2+ speeds.
Though a lot of people/companies are wanting the Government to go the whole way with Fiber and give higher speeds.
Currently it's still at the starting stage where they are doing tenders etc some work is supposed to be happening now but what that is exactly not sure.
No Im aussie. I just didn't think of that so called lame roll out you speak of. Are you aware how long that is going to take (retorical question) Australia is so far behind with it Internet compared to some countries its not funny.
Anywho good on the judge bout time sensability came to the front
If it seems that the australians are a bit thick then they ain't alone. the fishing expiditons of the RIAA and extortionate threats against all and sundry in the USA in an attempt for the recording industry to stay in the past. the recent protection-of-links legislation in the UK. the Spanish outlawing of "file-sharing" tools.
australia is a stock standard jingoistic joint. i were born here over fifty years ago.
if it seems to some that there is an anti-USA thing going on then that is misconception brought about by the fact that that the main litigants were US businesses too slow to make the move to 2009/2010.
the case was not enjoined by the US porn film industry because they jumped pretty quickly onto bit-torrent. they reccomend UTorrent to their subscribers because its ease of use is about the level who they clients is.
to get the IP and ISP data the lawyer may be correct in saying that their side doesn't do that.
the connect i've got now doesn't allow to torrent, however i used to be addicted to Azureus. azureus can be set to log everything. if you deal with an azureus in a swarm they ain't hackin you... yer tellin them everything they want to know.
if "hollywood" had got in with the azureus developers early, or if they get in with them now... they'd save a lot of money and cut out a huge proportion of the middleman.
the Vuze thing ain't my thing but i think it is a great development for its intended purpose.
the judge, the politicians, the media are generally at the level of peoples who ask me to help with a computer problem. i ask what they are running and they say "Office" or "Word". right, so its MS. what version of "office"?
One worrying comment, for me, the judge made is that the litigants should maybe go after the software makers. "hollywood" won't be doing that as they techs and in-house legals will come up with fact that Bram Cohen originally designed BT as a legit tool for very large companies. HOWEVER... the politician responsible will look at that because he is fundamentally ignorant of the tech and is in fact a party hack who has his job because we live in a "democracy". before the case was finished he was talkin about other "remedies" the government may have to consider to stop this crime-wave.
yesterday and today the group known as Anonymous have been DDoS the government off the web because of the "net-filter". this isn't the first such series of attacks but is brought on by the recent announcement that various other categories would be blocked. one of which is women with small breasts which they fear may be a euphemism for children.
as someone earlier said australia had to extend copyright in order for the then government to get their free trade agreement. there is an element of anti-US in a lot of the population but it is at US capitalism. the song "happy birthday" is 60-70 years old and the author long dead. the song is copyright property of a company not connected to the dead author.
it isn't the end of this story just a starting skirmish. and in the end we will have more censorship.
yes. because this is australia.
Good for this Aussie judge.. At least someone can't be bought off. This case was like someone suing Smith & Wesson for an idiot who shoots someone.. I hope other countries take notice!!
