Comments on: Australian Internet Filter Will Target BitTorrent Traffic

By: Old Rubberlegs

Old Rubberlegs — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:15:34 +0000

That's odd… Everyone in the U.S. seems to think that government is on *our* side with regard to bandwith shaping matters. Maybe the plan is to make sure that only honest, uncorruptable people are always elected to office, for ever and ever and ever. I hope that's not unrealistic.

By: Tom Ryan

Tom Ryan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:08:54 +0000

Seems like Hitler now lives in Australia.
"We will now tell you what you can and cannot do on the internet."
HIEL HITLER!

By: Australian Web and BitTorrent Filtering Scheme Delayed | IDTorrent Blog

Australian Web and BitTorrent Filtering Scheme Delayed | IDTorrent Blog — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:12:27 +0000

[...] going about their business by slowing everything down. The government even plans to attempt the blocking of BitTorrent [...]

By: JimJim

JimJim — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:07:19 +0000

“Promoting a civil and confident society online”, claims Australian Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy.

Meaning 'promoting a subdued and compliant society'.

The filtering scheme has many dissenters, including the chief of one of Australia’s largest ISPs, iiNet, who called it “ridiculous“, and branded Stephen Conroy “the worst Communications Minister we’ve had in the 15 years since the [Internet] industry has existed.”

And that is saying something, as Australia has had a long run of truly shitty communications ministers. I did not think anybody could be worse than that rabid idiot Richard Alston, but…

By: JimJim

JimJim — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:02:29 +0000

Brother, have you got some growing up to do.

By: JimJim

JimJim — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:53:19 +0000

Definitely not. The substantial majority are opposed to it.

By: JimJim

JimJim — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:52:31 +0000

TOR is no good for P2P, it does not have the bandwidth. In fact too many people use it to peer, it will render TOR useless.

By: JimJim

JimJim — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:50:38 +0000

Yep, anybody who thinks the conservative coalition parties will be any better is seriously kidding themselves. Both mainstream parties are up to their necks in cosy little relationships with the corporate world. The only reason the conservatives did not introduce this stuff when in government was because they accepted the technical advice that it could not be done effectively (or even at all). But make no mistake, they would be wetting their pants with excitement if effective filtering technology ever became available, and would not hesitate to implement and abuse it. Conservatives are as obsessed with controlling the population as anybody, their current and very convenient claims to be defenders of free speech notwithstanding.

By: polkat

polkat — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:52:39 +0000

Kevin Rudd and Stephen Conroy have to be killed, kill them now.

I urger all terrorists to target and kill these idiots. KILL THEM NOW THE CUNTS !!!!!!!!!!

By: name

name — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:27:34 +0000

Those australian guys are stupid?!

By: Aussie ‘Doctor Who’ Fans Set to Time Travel With BitTorrent « Tech Blog

Aussie ‘Doctor Who’ Fans Set to Time Travel With BitTorrent « Tech Blog — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:01:30 +0000

[...] infringing actions of their customers, and the ‘firewall’ of Australia threatening to target BitTorrent. But when it comes to deterring piracy it seems the big studios are blind to some of the small [...]

By: Stephen Conroy

Stephen Conroy — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:30:22 +0000

We are all in recognition of Roses stupidity?
great!!

The internet filter is flawed.
The only fear should be that it will infect other countries also.
If all are infected with this, then we have limited shadow to "play".
Aussie "enthusiasts" are standing frontline, but can only ward off the dogs for soo long.

Dont be blind peeps, cause even if youre on the otherside of the world, you should know that change is only an "1C 00" away ;)

By: Aussie ‘Doctor Who’ Fans Set to Time Travel With BitTorrent | IDTorrent Blog

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:13:17 +0000

By: david hollis

david hollis — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:19:29 +0000

The elephant in the room is the fact the government has men with guns and cages waiting for those who stand against them.The fundamentalist christian lobby is simply using this power to further their own agenda.If you had no government you would have nothing in place that could lead to tyranny of this magnitude.

Dave the christian anarchist.

By: Nick: "Australian Internet Filter Will Target.. - edno23.com

Nick: "Australian Internet Filter Will Target.. - edno23.com — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:27:59 +0000

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By: Aussie ‘Doctor Who’ Fans Set to Time Travel With BitTorrent | Jukka Juvankoski

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:18:50 +0000

[...] for the infringing actions of their customers, and the ‘firewall’ of Australia threatening to target BitTorrent. But when it comes to deterring piracy it seems the big studios are blind to some of the small [...]

By: Panicnic

Panicnic — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:27:14 +0000

Except they are not in court for this reason – they are in court because they refuse to hand over the information to the American distributors – they have however stated that they are willing to hand over the names/addresses to the police. It's called the Privacy Act for a reason, and it would be illegal for Iinet to hand over this information.

By: Roze

Roze — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:11:57 +0000

Protests are not effective only because they are not well-thought-out. A good protest can be effective. Moreover, even if it is not, at least the token effort counts.

By: arrogance01

arrogance01 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:59:46 +0000

lol. you're all in fear as you'll have to go back to the 'good ol days' of actually buying cds, dvds, software, resources etc.

By: Roze

Roze — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:14:53 +0000

Indeed, that is what government is for. If one disagrees with laws, one ought to do things to get the law changed. At least in a democratic government, of course, which Australia definitely is. Thus, the way to get laws changed is to get the popular will to want it changed. To say that industries somehow have an undemocratic amount of power is just a crazy conspiracy theory, and is exactly what the industry wants us to think, since it is essentially giving up our democratic rights.