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Australian Government Cracks Down on Online Piracy

posted by mrpg on Friday October 19 2018, @12:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'd-steal-a-car-and-a-DVD dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @03:16PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @03:16PM (#750951)
    Just like the good old days before Hotbot (Google's Mama), Google, Bing, etc started whoring themselves to big business and governments to censor and filter material. Yandex is still a good pirate search engine by the way, those Russians! This was how we rolled before communication was censored and filtered. You can download and setup your own open source ftp server and client for free over at Filezilla https://filezilla-project.org/ [filezilla-project.org] and get back to basics, 'er pirating! Set up a good ratio on your FTP server and you'll make a lot of buddies quickly. Then hop on your favorite open source IRC (Internet Relay Chat for the newbs) client, download and join some channels and spread your banner ads for your site and watch things take off. Find a good news reader client too and discover all kinds of God awful things over in the newsgroups! This was the good stuff before TOR came along. These were the tricks of the trade before this Internet thingy became bombarded with pictures and Javascript. Time to go back to pirate basics Australia!

  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday October 19 2018, @10:28PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 19 2018, @10:28PM (#751186) Journal

    Hotbot was an incarnation of Inktomi.

    Google is an incarnation of Backrub.

    Not same thing.

    Inktomi sought to provide precise results based on degree of match with keywords sought.

    Backrub sought to provide desirable results based on how much other people like your matches.