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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: 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.