<http://www.zdnet.com/au/brandis-and-turnbull-working-on-joint-piracy-crackdown-policy-7000030239/>
> Australian Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General
> George Brandis have been meeting to discuss various proposals for how to
> crack down on Australians downloading copyright-infringing TV shows, movies,
> and music, including adapting the Spam Act, and graduated responses as
> proposed by the Communications Alliance.
>
> According to emails between the Department of Communications and the
> Attorney-General's Department obtained under Freedom of Information, ZDNet
> can reveal that the meetings have been ongoing since Brandis gave a speech in
> February to the Australian Digital Alliance forum outlining that the
> government was looking at ways to tackle online copyright infringement,
> including the so-called graduated response scheme that sees action against
> repeat infringers increase after multiple warnings, including fines, and in
> some countries, disconnection from the internet.
>
> Brandis, who describes Australia as "the worst offender anywhere in the
> world" for copyright infringement, last week revealed that a group of four
> employees in the department are working on a number of proposals for means to
> deter the number of Australians using applications such as BitTorrent to
> share copyright-infringing material online, including one proposal for the
> graduated response scheme.
...
--
David Boxall | My figures are just as good
| as any other figures.
http://david.boxall.id.au | I make them up myself, and they
| always give me innocent pleasure.
| --HL Mencken
_______________________________________________
Link mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
