Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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?


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday October 19 2018, @07:46PM (2 children)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 19 2018, @07:46PM (#751114) Journal

    I certainly don't want people taking my work without paying for it. Do you think [that's] OK ...?

    1. There are already laws against unauthorized use of someone else's work that's protected under laws such as copyright, trademark, patent, and the like. There doesn't need to be a special copy of each law with "On Google" tacked onto the end.

    2. Google telling people where to find your work may be a crime (depends on how bad your work is), but not for the reasons you seem to think. Under this school of thought, merely telling someone about your work is subject to "crackdown"--you yourself telling others about your work is "piracy" in this flawed thinking.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @09:54PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @09:54PM (#751168)

    1) I agree, yet I have been accused of a wide variety of sins for wanting (and expecting) to be paid for my work.

    2) I never endorsed Google (or anyone) being penalized. I don't agree with this prospective Australian law and certainly never suggested I did.

    • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday October 19 2018, @10:26PM

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 19 2018, @10:26PM (#751183) Journal

      You have the absolute right to get paid for your work (or give it away, or destroy it, or anything you choose), and no one has a right to benefit from it without your authorization. I apologize for miscasting your statements.