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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: 2) by Arik on Saturday October 20 2018, @02:53AM

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday October 20 2018, @02:53AM (#751252) Journal
    You're the one twisting - you've twisted up a scenario that doesn't even resemble the situation under discussion.

    How about this - my employer pays me just fine, but lots of people other than my employer make use of my work, those other people don't pay me a cent. Some of them don't even make an indirect financial contribution to me.

    And that's just fine. I get paid for what I do. I don't expect to collect residuals in perpetuity on every job I ever did.
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