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HAHAHA AUSTRALIA WHAT ARE YOU DOING. WHY ARE YOU SO AGAINST THE INTERNET?
"The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires internet bloggers, and anyone making a comment on next month's state election, to publish their real name and postcode when commenting on the poll."
"It also appears to apply to election comment made on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter."
"The law, which was pushed through last year as part of a raft of amendments to the Electoral Act and supported by the Liberal Party, also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner."
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Welcome to Red Australia/Nazi Australia.
I guess I should be fair and post something else too. How about that Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? It's still in the works but there have been some leaked bits. This agreement will cover the following countries; the USA, Switzerland Japan, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore and United Arab Emirates.
"The leaked document includes a provision to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to provide information about suspected copyright infringers without a warrant, something which many feel should not be legal, making it easier for the record industry to sue music file sharers and for officials to shut down non-commercial BitTorrent websites such as The Pirate Bay."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
For your information, in the United States of America, unless the police have a warrant, they cannot get your information from your ISP. This is why most anti-piracy cases flounder because it's fucking impossible to get enough proof of piracy to get a warrant.
"The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires internet bloggers, and anyone making a comment on next month's state election, to publish their real name and postcode when commenting on the poll."
"It also appears to apply to election comment made on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter."
"The law, which was pushed through last year as part of a raft of amendments to the Electoral Act and supported by the Liberal Party, also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner."
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Welcome to Red Australia/Nazi Australia.
I guess I should be fair and post something else too. How about that Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? It's still in the works but there have been some leaked bits. This agreement will cover the following countries; the USA, Switzerland Japan, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore and United Arab Emirates.
"The leaked document includes a provision to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to provide information about suspected copyright infringers without a warrant, something which many feel should not be legal, making it easier for the record industry to sue music file sharers and for officials to shut down non-commercial BitTorrent websites such as The Pirate Bay."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
For your information, in the United States of America, unless the police have a warrant, they cannot get your information from your ISP. This is why most anti-piracy cases flounder because it's fucking impossible to get enough proof of piracy to get a warrant.
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Fucking country.
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/kills
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In all seriousness though, both laws are ridiculous and honestly, what
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RECOMMEND ME SOME EXPRESSIONS I SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR
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also, I hear this is apparently unheard of, but did you know you can buy the 2bux userpic addition for sponsored accounts? I DID NOT KNOW THIS UNTIL RECENTLY just saying
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where is my 2 bucks for 100 icons and skipping 5 bucks for paid features? i would do this anyday
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Just wait until February/March when all of the Christmas paid time runs out for us. Gonna be heartbreaking.
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(Certainly they're not going to chase anyone for japanese anime, on the basis that the only people bleating about copyright infringement are usually looking for TV or music. I'll bet there's very few RIAA wonks keeping an eye on tokyotosho, for instance.)
Even then, some countries aren't really paying attention to ACTA. Even with the craziness going on in England the government have been quick to point out - and amend into the Digital Bill - that they're going to have a three strikes before any hint of prosecution and that disconnection is only going to occur in the largest and most consistent cases. The cynical viewer may think they shouldn't even have the option, but that we'll just have to live with. Either way, they certainly can't catch the entire sea of bittorrenting with a net this flimsy.
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... hi I'm too lazy to log out, WITNESS MY SHAME
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That is, unless you know a program name you could forward in my direction.
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Is it just me, or is Australia very fond of regulations?
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