Given the reception to Australia’s ISPs’ proposal to trial a copyright infringement regime, you have to wonder if people understand what “proposal” actually means.
The ISPs offered their proposed for discussion at the end of last week, but judging by the reception the proposal has received, everyone seems to think it’s a fait accompli. It’s not: it’s a discussion paper, and while it’s generating buckets of discussion, it’s all at the level of surface froth.
According to a report in The Australian, rights-holder lobby the Australian Content Industry Group is whining that the scheme isn’t “fair and balanced” (without defining its specific complaint), while Foxtel wants offenders’ broadband connections rate-limited (a climb-down from the content industry’s long-standing “cut them off” demand).
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