Archive for March 26th, 2009
It looks like ACMA really do have no idea about the Internet
Posted by Aaron in Internet censorship on 26 March, 2009
From this, it looks like ACMA haven’t actually looked into circumvention techniques for bypassing ISP-level filtering. They ignore VPNs and HTTP/SOCKS proxies (which are ineffective against PC-level filters) not to mention SSH tunnels or tor (also ineffective against PC-level filters) nor any other kind of tunneling protocol…
So, people with servers in the US, you stand to gain a great deal of money if you were to maybe sell access to a VPN or proxy (web, SOCKS or HTTP) that you have set up on your server…
After all, the Streisand effect will definitely take much greater hold after the sites on the blacklist are actually blocked
Copyright… Theft?
Posted by Aaron in Copyright, Random ramblings on 26 March, 2009
How can you steal copyright? This makes no sense whatsoever. I could walk into a shop and steal a DVD (copyrighted material) but the penalties I would face would have nothing to do with whether or not the content on the DVD was copyrighted. Conversely, downloading copyrighted material from the internet is not theft, because i am simply making a copy of data that exists elsewhere. This is copyright infringement. They are 2 very different things. So when I see a name like AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) I believe that it is simply an attempt to confuse the issue. I’m certainly confused…