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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: 3, Informative) by VLM on Friday October 19 2018, @09:06PM
That is a quaint lost technology that anyone younger than gen-x will have no idea WTF it is.
To help the kiddies, now-a-days if you have modded minecraft usually F7 will display the light level overlay. But how to memorize that? In ye olden days games came with cardboard sheets that sat on your keyboard with holes for the keys, and the cardboard had a nice label for "light level overlay" roughly lining up with your F7 key, so you'd know at a glance to hit F7 while learning muscle memory. Some overlays had multiple colors, some games had multiple overlays for different modes OR different keyboards. It was a cool era and a cool technology.
I remember the one for Microprose Stealth Fighter simulator was particularly nice circa 1990.