20 min later, my ADSL2+ Internet Connection was also disconnected without notice by iiNet.

Just luck that I have a backup wireless connection.
Be Warned. If it happened to me, it can just as easily happen you.

Both happened after I had just paid $30 for another domain name, and $160 for a years web hosting which I never even got to use.

I first found out when the Username & Password I was sent by iiNet didn’t work. NICE!
Welcome to Communist China. I believe Nazi Germany started via censorship.

Be careful when obtaining a new Domain Name or Web Hosting. Their quite happy to accept your money, but that’s no indication that you’ll ever get to use it, or even your existing internet connection.

Ask Heaps of Questions First and get the Answers in Writing ! Their word is woth NOTHING. I’m moving to a freer China!

I’ll tell you what really frightens me. It’s that I believe the AFACT does know how the internet works and they do know the correct legal position and workings. They aren’t fools; they’ve got good techies and good lawyers as well.

It’s frightening that they know all this and yet they proceed with their plans anyway. They are prepared to bully anyone and to get the lawmakers onside with them. They are not just prepared to “bend” the rules; they want to totally re-make them to suit themselves and to hell with anybody who disagrees.

And it’s frightening that the lawmakers and the government allow themselves to be used so that AFACT, RIAA & MPAA can get their own way.

And it’s even more frightening that we ordinary citizens allow it to happen and watch our rights get eroded and do nothing.

Sure, piracy is illegal, but this is the thin edge of the wedge, isn’t it?

Time to wake up.