Read this snippet today in the August edition of PCUser:
Quote:
Back in February Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, revealed that he was considering a three strikes rule for P2P copyright offenders, following similar proposals in the UK.
Under the UK plan, a warning would first be issued to people found illegally copying files using P2P technology. The second strike would result in the internet access being suspended, and the third strike would result in the offender being cut off from internet access.
At the time of writing, neither the UK nor the Rudd government had yet made the three strikes rule into law and may never do so. In the UK at least, the law would run up against an April European Parliament directive that states that such bans violate civil liberties and human rights.
In Australia, Conroy was widely derided for the proposal and has since said nothing further on the subject, indicating that he may well have abandoned the idea altogether.
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Mmm - it would be nice if this little gem was completely forgotten about.
Mike
