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The Australian Communications Minister is proposing "game changing" laws crack down on Piracy by forcing search engines such as Google to filter content results thereby removing the path people have to finding illegal content online.
[...] Under the proposed laws to be introduced to Parliament today, authorities will also be able to force search engines like Google to stop "unashamedly facilitating crime" by promoting pirate sites that allow internet users to illegally download music or films.
Graham Burke, chief executive of Australian film company Village Roadshow, last night hailed the new laws as game-changing for the industry while slamming Google for acting "as evil as Big Tobacco" in its online behaviour.
"We stand ready to be co-operative with Google. We see good Google and bad Google. But bad Google is as evil as Big Tobacco was 30 years ago. They know what they're doing. They know they're facilitating and enabling crime and it's time for them to clean their act up," he told News Corp.
He accused Google of "unashamedly facilitating crime" by taking people to criminal pirate websites.
Does the Australian government really need to give weapons to special interest groups to enforce civil laws the majority of people do not support?
(Score: 1) by Blymie on Friday October 19 2018, @01:42PM (2 children)
You know, I pirate daily. Literally daily.
Yet your arguments hold no water. You're trying to claim that piracy is only people downloading, that would not buy. What blather!
Endless, endless, ENDLESS people, including YOU, download to *save money*. To get something YOU VALUE, that the CREATOR values, but for FREE!
Not because you wouldn't pay, but because you don't have to.
To lie about this? Is just horse shit.
Some try to claim "Well, I wouldn't but it anyhow -- I don't have the money to!", yet these same people buy larger hard drives, faster internet connections, and then crone on about how they're "saving" money because they get content for free.
Here's the real deal. You enjoy something without paying, if the creator wants to be compensated? You're a *thief*. Period.
There are a variety of reasons to be a thief. Some even valid, mortally correct reasons!
But playing some bullshit game, where you pretend you wouldn't watch ANYTHING if you had to pay? Or listen to anything if you had to pay? Oh man, such delusion.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday October 19 2018, @04:00PM
It was no game for me. I would have watched music videos in the 1980s, had they been available. But they were only on MTV (Music TV), which was only available via cable TV, and that was expensive. What did I do about it? Simple. I didn't see them. I wasn't so into music that I was willing to pay cable TV rates.
Now, all these years later, I can watch pretty much whatever music video I want, whenever I want, thanks largely to YouTube. It's more than music. There were lots of shows on cable TV that I never saw. For me, it's been quite a bit of discovery. Ohh, that's the meme all my friends were talking about then. I never saw Beavis and Butthead, Kids in the Hall, or any number of movies they all saw. I didn't know what "crush your head" was all about, or "Bueller, Bueller", or the stuff from Rain Man, didn't know what they were talking about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @04:55PM
You seem so proud, I'm sure your family is too.
As for me, I don't download anything for free if the source charges for it. That includes music, movies, software, etc etc. I don't take something that is for sale without paying for it. It's as simple as that. If the freeware/OSS provider asks for a donation, and I use the software, I donate.
Spending money isn't a problem. Do I pay for terrestrial radio in my car? No, but I am bombarded with commercials. I do pay for satellite radio. I pay for every song I download, and every CD I get. Do I pay for TV? I certainly pay for the cable TV package and all the premium channels. I don't put a quarter (or a dollar) into the TV for every show I watch. I do pay for every on-demand or pay-per-view show. I pay for all my software (for each system it runs on), and every service I use. I pay for everything I use and have no qualms about it.
Your dream that everyone is a pirate so it's OK for you to be a pirate is just a fantasy.