When I saw the title it was familiar. So I posted the date for other HN users that recognise it and can relate that they too have seen the article before.
I do wish that you would take the comment as it is, a date. It is in no way a smug snark at old news.
Humour those of us who were busy doing Christmas-related things and missed this one. I found it interesting.
I expect the next move from those beholden to the major studios will be to lobby for tougher legislation - SOPA-style. It is important to maintain awareness and vigilance so that all efforts can be made to stymie such legislation.
The Communication minister (Stephen Conroy) is, apart from a horrible "filter the naughty stuff off the internet" plan which has since gone away, pretty switched on about tech.
Although he has been critical of iinet in the past, be's also said that he's not going to push new laws into place unless both sides agree on them.
