[ga] Australia To Block BitTorrent

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  The clamps are being put on down under!  Can BitTorrent
route around?  Well we shall see...

See:
"Censorship Minister Stephen Conroy announced today
that the Australian Internet Filters
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24833959-5014239,00.html
will be extended to block peer-to-peer traffic, saying, 'Technology
that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is
anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live
pilot
trial.' This dashes hopes that Conroy's Labor party had realised
filtering
 
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-great-porn-war/2008/12/18/1229189804560.html

could be politically costly at the next election and were about to back
down.
The filters were supposed to begin live trials on Christmas Eve, but two
ISPs
who volunteered have
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24823359-5014239,00.html
still not been contacted by Conroy's office, who advised, 'The
department
is still evaluating applications that were put forward for participation
in that
pilot.' Three days hardly seems enough time to reconfigure a national
network."

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