http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/20/was-megaupload-bad-for-the-creative-industries
Was Megaupload bad for the creative industries?
Loz Kaye and Frances Moore debate the pros and cons of more stringent controls on filesharing as Megaupload is taken down
'The industry is failing to deliver what customers want'
It seems everyone is a pirate these days. There have been many wild accusations recently. Rupert Murdoch even called Google a "piracy leader" on Twitter in a dramatic week for the web, climaxing with the take-down of Megaupload.
Over this week many found that "piracy" is not just a cultural, but also a political issue. Megaupload claimed 150 million users. 150 million pirates? Maybe.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/isp-pulls-out-of-filter-trial/story-e6frgal6-1225700514461
ISP pulls out of internet filter trial
AUSTRALIA'S third largest internet service provider has dealt the Rudd Government's plans for a mandatory internet filter another blow only days after a top-secret blacklist of banned web pages was leaked.
IiNet yesterday pulled out of the federal Government's internet filtering trials, blaming drawn-out negotiations with the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, constant changes in policy, and last week's leak of a secret internet blacklist.
The secret blacklist, leaked to the whistleblower website Wikileaks
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/megaupload-user-asks-court-return-his-video-files
Goodwin stored his video footage on Megaupload's servers as a backup to his hard drive. In January, the FBI shut down Megaupload.com and executed search warrants on the company's servers, locking out all Megaupload customers in the process. When Goodwin's hard drive crashed, he could not get access to any of his own video files, which he needed to conduct his business.
https://www.eff.org/document/brief-interested-party-kyle-goodwin
MegauploadMotion-1.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist
A blacklist (or black list) is a list or register of entities who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition. As a verb, to blacklist can mean to deny someone work in a particular field, or to ostracize a person from a certain social circle. Conversely, a whitelist is a list or compilation identifying entities that are accepted, recognized, or privileged.
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http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Leaked_Australian_blacklist_reveals_banned_sites
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/93922/aussie-isps-plan-to-begin-voluntarily-filtering-the-web/
May 27, 2009
June 22, 2011
http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/acma-blacklist-leaked-contains-legal-websites/
Electronic Frontiers Australia notes that a site containing poison information is present on the list, as well as many other harmless sites such as that of a tour operator.
EFA’s Vice-Chair Colin Jacobs says ‘Now that we have seen the list, it is clearly not the perfect weapon against child-abuse it has been made out to be.’
‘Many of the sites clearly contain only run-of-the-mill adult material, poker tips, or nothing controversial at all. Even if some of these sites may have been defaced at the time they were added to the list, how would the operators get their sites removed if the list is secret and no appeal is possible?’
However, Senator Stephen Conroy told SMH the leak and publication of the ACMA blacklist would be ‘grossly irresponsible’ and undermine efforts to improve cyber safety. Asher Moses at SMH writes:
http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/amateur-adult-site-xtubecom-makes-aussie-ban-list/
One of Australia’s largest owned and operated adult websites, AbbyWinters.com, is included on a list alleged to be the ACMA blacklist of prohibited websites. Also banned is the TheHun.com, one of the web’s longest running and most visited free adult link directories.
Another GMBill website, Ishotmyself.com, is also included on the list.
The equivalent of arriving at your place of business one morning to find Kevin Rudd has chained the door and boarded the windows.
http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/poker-websites-hit-by-australian-blacklist/
http://www.zdnet.com.au/greedy-isps-kept-from-filtering-trial-339295460.htm
"Some of them, cheaply, took the opportunity to try and get the Commonwealth to fund an upgrade in their own equipment,"
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Dentist%27s_website_on_leaked_blacklist
No to cow fart taxes, yes to Internet filtering