Australian Anti-Piracy Law 2015: Impact on Content Owners and Internet Users

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Australian Anti-Piracy Law 2015
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Executive Summary
Piracy has been one of the most challenging problems that has been faced among multiple
content creators hence the implementation of the Anti-piracy law 2015. The policy protects
content owners by giving them the legal rights to protect their content from illegal distribution
which is termed as piracy. The report covers a wide range of knowledge regarding the Anti-
piracy law 2015 and the impact it has on different bodies with the country.

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................4
Anti-piracy law 2015 and its Uses...............................................................................................................5
Misused of the Anti-piracy law 2015...........................................................................................................7
Will the Anti-piracy law 2015 work............................................................................................................7
Impacts of the Policy.................................................................................................................................10
References.................................................................................................................................................11

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Australian Anti-Piracy Law 2015
Introduction
The anti-piracy law 2015 was one of the most controversial anti-piracy legislations to be passed
in the country. The law advocated for the blocking of websites that infringe o the copyright of
different content owners. Explained into detail, the policy advocated for the closure or the
blocking the access of different websites that allow uses of the websites to view content without
have the right to display this content by the content provider. This applies mostly to the tv and
movie industry. Different websites host these tv shows and movies for free where the users or the
public can go online and download the content for free. The issue on piracy had really affected
the entertainment industry in relation to revenue generating mechanisms. The bill was introduced
in the parliament by the communication Minister Malcolm Turnbul in March the same year so as
to help curb the piracy on online films and TV shows. It was passed with the Coalition and
Labour’s support 37 – 13. The Australian Greens opposed this bill so did the Senators David
Leyonhjelm, Glenn Lazarus and Ricky Muir (Strangelove, M., 2015.). It is evident that the
policy was not in the interest of the many but mainly affected the majority of the internet users.
Surveys carried out showed that most of the internet users in the country used the internet to
access these different websites such as ThepirateBay or KickAss to access content such as
movies and TV shows and download them for free. It is important to understand the problem
associated with this act. For the movie makers, this is their private content that they have
prepared and own the legal rights to distribute the movies or the tv shows (Bradford, J., 2016).
Any other company that is involved in the distribution of the content in this case the movies and
the TV shows, they are infringing on the owners’ copyright laws. In the process these movie
makes and the TV show creators ended up incurring losses since the public does no buy this
content from them of the licensed distributors. This basically explain piracy. This made it more