Analysis of Australian Anti-Piracy Laws 2015: Impact and Effectiveness

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BIT244: IT AND BUSINESS
FRAUD
AUSTRALIAN ANTI-PIRACY LAWS
(2015)

Introduction
An important problem in Australia currently is Piracy.. Any time a person produces
something, the whole content of the producers can not be kept and it is very difficult for all
of them to stop the content to get into the hands of the wrong people.
For the legislators in Australia, the violation of the copyrighted contents are a priority. The
law targets specifically all Internet sites which are the distributors of pirated content.
The foremost reason for the law's enactment was that all non-Australian sites that could
help to the piracy industry could be blocked. This presentation is fully based on the
Australian Law of Anti-piracy in 2015.

Australian Anti-Piracy Laws, 2015
In 2015, a law in Australia was adopted, which allows ISPs to completely block access to
websites that breach copyright rights. Owners may report a particular injunction in the
Federal Court.
Some points must be satisfied for an order to disable access from an ISP to the Australian
website-
● The origin of the website is outside Australia geographically.
● The overall web application should be designed to infringe, or enable, copyright
infringements.

Use of the Anti-Piracy Laws to Prevent
Piracy
● ISPs are allowed to disable the 15-day access to recognized domain names in the
orders.
● In the commands, it becomes priority to block those websites which are mirrored.
● If any subscriber considers a notice incorrectly issued, he can ask a question before a
particular stand alone adjudication writing panel.
● If, in a period of twelve months, a specific subscriber is identified infringing
copyrights and receives training on the 3 separate occasions, a warning / final
message is automatically entered in the Final and last Notice List.

Misusing the Australian Anti-Piracy
Laws
Access to the sites which are blocked is possible by the VPN (Virtual Private Network).
While people will buy VPNs, they are still not as expensive, so that everybody can easily
purchase & use them.
● Domain Name Server Blocking
● Use of the Tor Network
● AWS Virtual Private Network
● Other Virtual Private Network Services

Australian Anti-Piracy Law Working or
Not?

Other Countries move on the Anti-Piracy
Motion
● UNITED STATES
The USA initiated in February 2013 with Copyright Alert System (CAS) a "six stri
kes" campaign in order to combat piracy on the internet.
● UNITED KINGDOM
2010 Digital Economy Act was passed through parliament.
● FRANCE
Unauthorized/ non-legal downloaders will receive an email of warning, a letter if
they are kept going and have to be brought before a judge in the court if they
again offend.

Who will the Law hurt?
● Australian economy alone had lost 1.37 billion dollars of revenue
● 6,100 full-time jobs
● Film manufacturers, film and DVD dealers, DVD
& Blu-ray leasing companies and legal streamers are the direct loser.
● The local movie operators

Who will the Law protect?
● The owners of infringing website may now seek a judgment at the Federal Court. Site rep
roducing such content is blocked quickly and efficiently by proxies and mirrors.
● These amendments will help nearly 9,000 elementary & secondary education schools &
40 universities across Australia will be provided with the digital services with full
confidence in their 3.2 million schools and over 1.2 million higher education students.
● All other content producers who have fear of piracy and loss of profit and confidentiality
are concerned about their content.

References
● Andrés, A.R. and Goel, R.K., 2012. Does software piracy affect economic growth?
Evidence across countries. Journal of Policy Modeling, 34(2), pp.284-295.
● Karaganis, J. ed., 2011. Media piracy in emerging economies. Lulu. com.
● Larsson, S., Svensson, M., De Kaminski, M., Rönkkö, K. and Alkan Olsson, J., 2012.
Law, norms, piracy and online anonymity: Practices of de-identification in the global
file sharing community. Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 6(4), pp.260-
280.
● Adermon, A. and Liang, C.Y., 2014. Piracy and music sales: The effects of an anti-
piracy law. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 105, pp.90-106.