Comments on: Australia Brings New Net Censorship http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/australia-brings-new-net-censorship/ Upgrade Your Lifestyle Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:06:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Pat http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/australia-brings-new-net-censorship/#comment-57807 Pat Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:46:30 +0000 #comment-57807 As an Australian, I am dead pissed with this bloody incompetence. Because of this, Internet speeds will be reduced to a crawl, and torrents and other P2P measures of piracy will still be very active in use.<br /> <br /> Of course, the most popular of torrent sites will be blocked. But a simple SOCKS proxy should get around that.<br /> <br /> In conclusion, if any Australian really wanted to get his/her fill of "illegal content", then it would happen.<br /> <br /> As a matter of fact, another reason for this filter is because no-one downloaded the NetAlert filter last year. Less than 33% of Australians took the filter into account, and, as listed in the article, it was hacked by a simple 16 year old.<br /> A whole team of 45+year olds (who where being paid, by the way) could not make a filter to match the computing prowess of a 16 year old. As an Australian, I am dead pissed with this bloody incompetence. Because of this, Internet speeds will be reduced to a crawl, and torrents and other P2P measures of piracy will still be very active in use.

Of course, the most popular of torrent sites will be blocked. But a simple SOCKS proxy should get around that.

In conclusion, if any Australian really wanted to get his/her fill of “illegal content”, then it would happen.

As a matter of fact, another reason for this filter is because no-one downloaded the NetAlert filter last year. Less than 33% of Australians took the filter into account, and, as listed in the article, it was hacked by a simple 16 year old.
A whole team of 45+year olds (who where being paid, by the way) could not make a filter to match the computing prowess of a 16 year old.

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