At 22:30 21/08/01 +1000, Danny Yee wrote:
> > 2. Optus@Home moves to outlaw pirates
> > Cable & Wireless Optus is planning to abolish pirate activity on its
> > broadband service, terminating customers caught in the act of downloading
> > copyright material and unlicensed software.
>
>Surely that should be "*illegally* downloading copyright material" and
>"unlicensed software that it is illegal to copy without a license".
>While free software is distributed under a license, it doesn't have to
>*be licensed*, and there's also a fair bit of public domain material
>with no license at all.
I'm more concerned about how they are going to "determine" if it's pirate
content?
Are they going to LOOK into everyone's email and data transfers?
Hmmm.
Are they also going to ban users who download the latest porn? That's
copyright material too!
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