The consumer advocacy group Choice says blocking websites in an attempt to curb copyright infringement would be like “whacking moles”.Choice chief executive Alan Kirkland told a copyright panel hosted by the communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, he had serious concerns about the effectiveness of blocking websites that may have material that infringes copyright.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/blocking-copyright-infringing-websites-derided-whacking-molesAlso see:The lunacy of trying to stop piracy at any cost by Alan Kirkland, CEO of CHOICE, Australia’s leading consumer advocacy organisation
If you want to stop piracy, don’t embark on expensive schemes to block websites – instead, make it easier for those Australians who are eager to pay for quality content, writes Alan Kirkland.In the late nineties, I used to break the law on a weekly basis. It sounds scandalous, but I think most Australians were doing the same thing.For reasons that are lost to me now, I was hooked on Melrose Place. If I was going to be out when it went to air, I would set my VCR to tape it. This sounds pretty harmless, but up until 2006 it was illegal according to copyright laws. Video tapes were common in Australia from the mid-eighties, but decades passed before using them in the way they were meant to be used was legal.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-09/kirkland-the-lunacy-of-trying-to-stop-piracy-at-any-cost/5731414
Blocking copyright-infringing websites derided as like ‘whacking moles’
The consumer advocacy group Choice says blocking websites in an attempt to curb copyright infringement would be like “whacking moles”.