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Telecommunications iiNet to “vigorously” defend claims it is a piirateNet | iiNet to “vigorously” defend claims it is a piirateNet |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 20 November 2008 | |
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iiNet says that AFACT needs to work with the police rather than force iiNet to act as a policeman, tracking every bit of information that goes over its network The news comes just days after iiNet’s Managing Director, Michael Malone, accused Australia’s Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy as being “incompetent” and the “worst” minister in Australia’s Federal Government. These claims have been made thanks to the ISP filtering trial the Government and Minister Conroy are proposing that could dramatically slow down Australians’ access to the Internet by checking all content for illegal material such as “kiddie porn” and blocking it. This has also raised questions over what else could be blocked and has raised the spectre of “The Great Firewall of Australia” where political and other information is censored. The curious timing between the two events, along with the court action itself, was explored in an earlier iTWire article entitled “Copyright police drag Australian ISP iiNet through the courts”, although there is no suggestion that the two events are in any way related or that AFACT's actions are in any way connected with Malone's criticism of the Minister. What is more curious is the fact that AFACT is taking iiNet to court first, and so far ignoring two other major Australian ISPs, Telstra and Optus, upon whose networks similarly infringing behaviour by users is likely taking place, and whose legal teams are likely even more formidable than that of iiNet. So, what has iiNet’s response been to the AFACT action? Please read on to page 2. |
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