Major Australian ISPs Begin Fight Against Piracy

[Jack]

Five of Australia’s largest Internet service providers, members of the Communications Alliance, revealed their anti-piracy plans which seem to replicate the three-strike law already implemented by other countries.

Telstra Bigpond, iiNet, Optus, iPrimus and Internode plan on fully collaborating with copyright holders in an effort to diminish the piracy phenomenon as much as possible, reports ABC News.

In a process that will last one and a half years, rights holders would provide IP addresses and evidence of copyright infringement to ISPs, who will then send warnings to the account holders involved.

These warnings will come in the form of educational notices that are served for up to three times to each customer that’s identified as being involved in piracy acts. If the third strike is reached, the organizations that represent the copyright holders will file lawsuits against the individuals that break the law.

“We believe the notice scheme can greatly reduce online copyright infringement in Australia while protecting consumer rights, educating consumers about how to access legal online content, and helping rights holders to protect their rights,” said John Stanton of Communications Alliance.

“Equally important is the need for rights holders to ensure that consumers have access to legal and affordable content online, to reduce the motivation to source content in ways that might be illegal.

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[win7holic]

Good Info jack

 

[McLovin]

I'm currently with Telstra Bigpond and what I have had the experience with them they are not the best. Good to see that they are fighting against piracy but there will always be away to get around the blocks and what not. They might not be able to do it at any schools because of the heavy blocks at schools, but all you have to do is wait till the kids get home and they will be at it again. I was thinking of swapping to Dodo but I will see how it goes. The speed and the space that I get with Telstra is great but the net keeps dropping out and sometimes I wake up and I have no internet at all.

Would like to see what MrXidus and all the other aussies have to say about this.

 

[MrXidus]

McLovin, Dodo is Optus, Just a re-branding you could say. iiNet which is on that list, Is also my ISP Westnet, Which is based off iiNet.
(I noticed from the Australian Whirlpool ISP forums where iiNet /Westnet are in the same category.)

 

[McLovin]

McLovin, Dodo is Optus, Just a re-branding you could say. iiNet which is on that list, Is also my ISP Westnet, Which is based off iiNet.
(I noticed from the Australian Whirlpool ISP forums where iiNet /Westnet are in the same category.)

Well in that case I will stick to Telstra for now, and see how things turn out.