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

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, @04:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @04:55PM (#751014)

    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.