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James Madley
Copying copyrighted media for personal use has been legal in Australia for two years now. I remember following the discussion and being over the moon when it went through. Anyway, getting around filters such as this proposed one is simple. Seeing as though only "dangerous" material will be blocked (does that include 4chan?), I'm going to guess that onion networks won't be - they're not illegal nor immoral (similar to the BitTorrent situation). Now regarding the reported speed decrease with this filter software; will all internet using Aussies receive subsidised internet to make up for it? Being on a 1.5Mb plan it wouldn't be very nice to find that speeds never go over 1.0Mb.
Topic: Minister Tanner's welcome