Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 23.12.2008
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated drivers Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests.
Senator Conroy went on the record saying "technology that filters peer-to-peer and Bit Torrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial".
It is a drastic step to filter out all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic as it assumes that those channels are only used for piracy. One example of legitimate use is the popular online game World of Warcraft. This game uses a Bit Torrent system of distrubution for its updates. Like any technology it can be used for both good and evil and choosing to block all on the account that it is only used for piracy is taking censorship to new levels.
Unsurprisingly the idea has fueled a serious debate in Australia; "I'm aware that this proposal has attracted significant debate and criticism ? on this blog and at other places in the blogosphere," Senator Conroy said. Many of the complaints stem around the idea that Senator Conroy is acting as a big brother.
If the Senator has his way and the filter is kept in place how far will the government be allowed to intervene? Simply blocking a technology for the potential illegal use is a preposterous idea as nearly all software can be used for malicious activities; it's the user who makes the decision.
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Comments(13)
idiots. money rules the world. i hope the ones who approved this dies tomorrow.
for the people or iran ..
oups sorry it's australia we are talking about ...
1984 is alive and well in oz
i give it a week before it's cracked
well thats what happens when no rules or constitution are applied. a couple of people
decided what the rules should be.
is like forcing someone to drive their cars
only on mondays.
f#$k irak! oh i mean autralian government.
the wired is infinite . they won't stop it in a matter of days or decades .
sounds like australia is heading to be a communist country, china is a country that comes
to mind,funny thing about banning things,is there will always be away around it.
reports have been said, that mostly likey it wont cope.
its meant to slow down the
internet by 87%. as if we don't have slow enough internet already.
back to dial-up
for australia, lol.
many use bittorrent for legitimate purposes. when those individuals are cut off for using
it, i figure they will be handed all they need for a great suit against the australian
government. i feel users in this country should now embrace rapidshare as their
alternative because it will be difficult for them to filter http. actually, the australian
government will find this an impossible dream because the burden of cost to maintain this
level of security will be absorbed by their government. looks like the media companies own
australia, worst of all, the citizens will pay taxes to have their rights infringed upon.
i guess australia is not the democracy we thought it was and is instead a plutocracy like
the u.s.!!!!
never been as ashamed to say i'm an aussie as i am now.
our fu*king leaders
are backwards fu*ktards.
does this mean that all kitchens in australia will now be without knives, as they can
also be used for crime? surely it is upto the individual to decide if they want to use
something illegally. maybe they'll be banning cars as well, incase somebody decides to
perform a 'ramraid'. c'mon ya flamin' galahs, stand up to them.
the cat ...wtf are you talking about?? rapidshare.....that phucking site is nothing but a
scam and the speeds are so slow i could walk to where the file is and back and be
quicker....you must be one of those rs phuckers who spam people to get your numbers
up....phuck you and your rapidshare.....
it won't pass the senate and can't become law if it doesn't. the australian greens are
blocking it, at least them and half the coalition know it isn't technically possible and
not financially feasible to install. i guess rudd shall drop it once he hears what to do
from bidden and obama his new masters and teachers besides mao.
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By Jimmy on 23.12.2008 - 23:12