Big Brother Alive and Well in Australia, Plans to Block BitTorrent in Place
Posted 12/22/08 at 04:06:54 PM by Andy Salisbury
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While it’s no secret that the Australian government is a fan of censoring and filtering the country’s Internet, they’re taking a bold new step this time. They’re planning to block BitTorrent completely.
The move comes from the Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy, who wrote in a blog post that he’s planning to oversee a trial if technology could filter data sent directly between computers as opposed to data downloaded from a central server. “Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial,” said Senator Conroy.
“I'm aware that this proposal has attracted significant debate and criticism – on this blog and at other places in the blogosphere,” Senator Conroy wrote. And how does he plan to follow that debate? “I'm following the debate at sites like Whirlpool and GetUp and on Twitter at #nocleanfeed.”
Twitter away Aussies, make your fury heard!
no way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by dazza145 on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 3:08pm
While it’s no secret that the Australian government is a fan of censoring and filtering the country’s Internet, they’re taking a bold new step "this time".
what do you mean by "this time" at this current stage the government has not done anything and if you ask me they probably wont none of our isps are backing the idea (even telstra which is owned part by the government) and i hope they dont
Submitted by dazza145 on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 2:36pm
i have been liveing in australia for my entire life and i would say it is nothing like "Soviet Russia" the government only wants to keep the country peaceful if you look it up you will find out that less people are killed from crimes in australia than in the usa (on a percentage because yous have more people) and i would say that is because of how easy it is to get your hands on a gun.i spent 3 weeks in the usa last year and was shocked at how regular department stotes sold guns, i had never even seen a gun before (apart from on police). also the health care in australia is much better, maby not the technology itself but what good is it if no one wants to go to hospital because they are worried about how they are going to pay the bill.(that is because the usa is the only developed country in the world not to offer some kind of benifit.(watch the documentary SICKO australia is the same as england) also look at unemployeement rates you will find once again australia is
much lower
what else is there
education
welfare
homelessness
so if you do your research you will find that the Australian government only wants the best for the people
P.S. the worst thing thay did was let soooooooooo many muslems into the country
Department Stores sells
Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 3:18pm
Department Stores sells guns?
Where were you Bizarro America?
I can buy a Ruger Mini 14
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 5:13pm
I can buy a Ruger Mini 14 and a 10/22 also a few hunting rifles and shotguns at WalMart here in Phoenix and Kmart sells the same. And this is not Bizarro America. You have the right to own and bare arms. This is protection of the people from an unreasonable government. But the government has outsmarted that by building it's own huge police and military forces.
Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 8:13pm
but that hardly common. i can't go into Vons and get a Glock 9 for example or Trader's Joe, which is what you were implying. That you could get gouns in any super market.
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 12/23/2008 - 2:02am
Nothing new for Australia. They had a shooting. A guy went insane and shot a bunch of people. Instead of encouraging it's population to arm themselves Australia banned handguns. Only shotguns are aloud for farmers. I hope they change that law if it hasn't already been.
What I'm getting at is that Australia has a history of going to extremes when it's gov't takes action against it's citizens. Is Australia turning into Soviet Russia?
Submitted by hogkill on Tue, 12/23/2008 - 8:03am
Not that I don't understand what you are getting at in general. But why should the Australian government encourage the population to arm themselves when they are shooting each other?
Clearly that would have been the dumb thing to do, and banning handguns was the smart thing.
That point aside, you can't compare killing instruments to an instrument of information. Two completely different things, two completely different responses should be taken.
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 12/23/2008 - 5:13pm
someone killed someone with a gun and they banned guns.
People commit crimes with the internet just ban the internet.
When everyone is armed people are less likely to become a victim as they have the means to defend themselves.
Now people kill each other with knives and people are unable to defend themselves because they have no guns.
You don't blame the implement you blame the person. If I kill someone with a gun you don't arrest the gun it was just the tool. You would arrest me. You go after the person that did the crime don't make it impossible for honest people to defend themselves. Do you really think the criminals in Australia turned in their guns? The only guns that were taken were from honest Austrailian citizens. You see it's going to extremes.
Instead of going after the few just ban the whole damn thing. It's like every robot against human movie where the robots think the best thing for humanity is to lock us up so we don't hurt ourselves. Extremes.
That's why I don't like libs too much and I hate the patriot act because it goes to extremes.
Submitted by notailmouse2 on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 7:49pm
i am going to shove my double plus size shoe and shove it up their triple plus tight asss
Submitted by Vegan on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 6:27pm
Australia has a Broadband Minister? Crazy. If he keeps at it, he's going to put himself out of a job because there won't be any more Internet left there to minister over.
It looks like they've already started.....
Submitted by ghot on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 4:27pm
At one of the most famous torrent sites.....all the torrents from the past 1-2 days have ZERO seeds. Civil war down under? :)
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 4:48pm
whatI find foney is a contry founded as a open air prizon for Europe has more 'net Nazies then Nazi Germany!
Submitted by Spiffy on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 3:58pm
Almost no aussie ISP's have signed up to the filtering trial, because the government has failed to take any of the evidence into consideration and it will tank an already woahful internet system.
There has been an ISP openly take part in the trial with the view that it will fail so miserably that it will embarrass the whole concept.
If you want a little background, the key place to go for independent aussie internet news is www.whirlpool.net.au
From hell's heart, I stab at thee.
As broadband expands
Submitted by QUINTIX256 on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 3:05pm
it will be more and more impractical to have one or a set of "central" servers be solely responsible for all requests. Client assisted distributed uploads will be the only way to go.
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 2:26pm
Riiiiight case EVERYBODY knows Torrents are ONLY for illigitimate softwhere.
Wait? It isn't?
OH SNAP!
Submitted by QUINTIX256 on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 3:10pm
it is also used for musicwhere, and moviewhere, and wherewolfwhere. Sorry, I just had to go thhhere.
But again, especially for 1080P+ "ondemand" video, it isn't practical for a service/media provider lease a gigantic pipe. Imagine needed a separate television channel for every television. It just wouldn't work. Bittorrent is the only way to go.
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