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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, @06:31PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @06:31PM (#751070)

    As someone who "creates" I certainly don't want people taking my work without paying for it.

    Good thing they're not taking it.

    And I want you to give me a million dollars.

    My time has value

    Then put it towards something that can actually make you money and stop trying to prop up your failed business model with draconian laws.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @08:24PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @08:24PM (#751136)

    Good thing they're not taking it.

    Some try. You may not want to admit it because it contradicts your "everything I don't want to pay for should be free" mindset, but that doesn't make you right.

    And I want you to give me a million dollars.

    You'll have to work out a contract for that. I run a business.

    Then put it towards something that can actually make you money and stop trying to prop up your failed business model with draconian laws.

    Clearly you have not been paying very close attention. My business does pretty well, and "pay for production" is not a failed business model. In fact, it's pretty close to what employees expect from their employers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @02:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @02:02AM (#751244)

      I have no contract with you. Explain to me why you should have any say over how I flip the bits on my hard-drive?