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The Internet Society wants the federal government to delay for at least a year its proposed Copyright Legislation forcing ISPs to block access to pirate websites, while undertaking an independent study on the “real extent” of video piracy.

You’d think Australia already has a digitally enabled economy, but the Internet Society is nevertheless applauding Government and Opposition moves to foster more of it.

The peak bodies of both the Internet and Telecommunications industries have lambasted the federal government’s promised allocation of just $131 million to meet the compliance costs of its mandatory data retention regime.