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Xenesis

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Posted on 04-21-12 01:48:24 AM (last edited by Xenesis at 04-20-12 10:52 PM) Link | Quote
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-20/iinet-wins-download-case/3962442

This is essentially Hollywood getting bitchslapped in Australia. They have a high court ruling that basically says that they can't attack the ISPs for their users, unlike in other countries where they try that.

Which is cool.
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Posted on 04-21-12 07:49:36 AM Link | Quote
If only we could get that to happen in the US too huh?

Then ISPs wouldn't have to be dicks, and they'd be chill and awesome.

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Posted on 04-21-12 01:49:30 PM Link | Quote
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A lot of ISPs are also content providers in the US, or even have association with studios or the media industry, so they'd still have incentive to be dicks.

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Posted on 04-21-12 01:53:58 PM Link | Quote
In Australia, not so much.

Telstra is the only one which has both a large market saturation and any big association with US content providers - but they're not that competitive simply because they have a poor service for internet compared to the other ISPs.
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Posted on 04-26-12 02:28:56 PM Link | Quote
Watch as the US does what it did with Spain, threats of trade sanctions.

Sorry for the negativism in an otherwise positive thread, but I can't see any other future outcome.

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Posted on 04-26-12 09:07:53 PM Link | Quote
Yeah it's kinda funny that the US is bullying most of the European countries to agree with their stupid law requests.

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Posted on 04-26-12 11:31:00 PM Link | Quote
Considering how slow legislature takes to pass through here, that would take a long time even if it was threatened.
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