Hollywood foolishy attempts site blocking in Australia to stop pirates
Having now shot themselves in both feet, the copyright police still continue to wave their gun around in the air.Even with the politicians and the lawon their side, content owners are losing battle after battle due to their own arrogance. After the surveilance laws passed last year, with Netflix geoblocking, and ISP data throttling using a VPN in Australia is normal. Annoying, slower, cheap but normal. This is whack-a-mole 2.0. The worst part about this is that the content availability has not changed much. DVDs are expensive, blueray never took off, Windows still tries to block legit disc backups, no online paid service offers a full catalogue of on demand TV, still no service offers the range of movies released over the last century, overseas content is rarely available and people are ready to pay a price to access an online streaming service for content using their crappy 5Mb to 19Mb DSL connection. Hollywood responds by demanding websites to be blocked at ISP level. The current status quo sucks.