Külföldi torrent oldalak Australia - The New Anti-piracy Laws In Action

It’s started. The first letter sent to purported Internet pirates under the Government’s new anti-piracy legislation has been leaked to the media.
And it’s not a pretty sight. The holders of copyright to the movie Dallas Buyers Club (DBC) won a case over iiNet in April to obtain the personal details of the owners of 4,726 IP addresses of people who allegedly illegally downloaded the movie.

DBC uses software from German company Maverick’s eye to track the IP addresses of people who have downloaded it from sites like The Pirate Bay. It has decided to go after iiNet, rather than larger ISPs like Telstra, because of iiNet’s high profile – it won a similar court case a few years ago, before the current laws were enacted.

The letter DBC proposes to send is now publicly available on many websites. You can see it in full here at Mashable Australia. DBC failed in its attempt to have the letter suppressed.

You can see why. It is a bullying piece of work designed to intimidate people – exactly what is being done in the US and exactly what opponents of this method, now sanctioned by the Australian Government, warned of.

It is unlikely the letter will be sent out in its current form. One small victory won by opponents of the Government’s draconian anti-piracy legislation is that all such correspondence must be approved by a judge beforehand.

So it will be probably be watered down. But you can see the intent, and the mindset. The 8 page letter, though not a legal document in the same way a court order is, is framed in that fashion, full of threats of legal action and DBC’s right to compensation, which extends to ‘out of pocket expenses’ and unspecified damages.

The letter also demands the recipient disclose the name of anyone they believe is engaged in the piracy they are accused of, including people under the age of 18.

It even asks you, if you wish to settle out of court, to disclose your income. Presumably the more you earn, they more they will hit you for. It also asks if you are disabled or suffering from a terminal illness? Presumably the sicker you are, the more lenient the treatment.

Just this week the next plank of the Government’s anti-piracy legislation, the blocking of websites like The Pirate Bay which facilitate piracy, passed the House of Representatives with the support of the ALP. It will now go to the Senate, where that support will guarantee its passage.

That will mean Australia will have one of the strictest anti-piracy laws in the world. But nowhere does the Government’s new regimen address what has consistently been demonstrated to be the major cause of piracy – the rights holders’ actions in restricting access to content.

Welcome to the New World.

Source:
http://www.itwire.com/government-tec...laws-in-action