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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.

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Yanno, I can't see this being TOO terrible. But it we might also go back to the quality dubs had back in those days too.

I like anime that generally isn't popular/never coming out in the US. Plus, there would be no way to preview an anime to tell if it's good or not (unless you rent...which is hard enough to find). Every 30 bucks you blow on 4-5 episodes could turn out to be a flop in your own opinion. Also, most Americans would have to fork out $50-100+ for a visual novel to be imported or 20+ bucks for each Touhou game (enjoy finding those in stock when they're first released). I, for one, see it as a nasty thing.

You're right, mostly. I really just want the US anime industry to continue improving quality and the popularity of anime piracy tends to force them to do so. Taking away the competition will just mean we're back to shit like MD GEIST.

I think I am the only person in the world that liked MD Geist.

You are. And you should be ashamed of yourself.

I refuse to be ashamed.

No, actually, you're not. I've never seen all of either MD Geist movie, but I liked what I did see.