{"id":83,"date":"2006-11-09T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T19:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/11\/aus-joins-the-anti-google-platoon-unfortunately\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T19:49:16","slug":"aus-joins-the-anti-google-platoon-unfortunately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/11\/aus-joins-the-anti-google-platoon-unfortunately\/","title":{"rendered":"Aus Joins The Anti-Google Platoon.. Unfortunately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sad <a title=\"Techdirt: Google Explains How To Kill The Internet In Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/Apparently, the Australian government has done its own research into some of these numbers \">story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Down in Australia they&#039;ve been looking at updating their copyright laws to catch up to the digital age (read: to make the laws more favorable for an entertainment industry that refuses to adjust to the market), but seem to be doing so in a way that pretty much guarantees the opposite would occur. For example, one of the changes would effectively <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20061107\/tc_afp\/australiagovernment_061107104851\">require search engines to ask permission<\/a> of every web page they indexed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s one of those &#034;sounds good in theory&#034; ideas that is ridiculous in practice, and would pretty much make it impossible to have a search engine in Australia. Google has submitted their own take on this law, explaining why it would push Australia into &#034;pre-internet&#034; days.<\/p>\n<p>This is the type of lawmaking that happens when lawmakers rely too much on a single industry (in this case, the entertainment industry) to detail the &#034;problems&#034; of the internet. It doesn&#039;t take into account what&#039;s really going on, or the fact that the complaining industry needs to learn how to adjust to the new technology &#8212; not beg for laws that hold back the technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I decided I wanted to move to Australia rather than Spain after graduating, part of the reasoning was more advanced internet technology. Hopefully that decision wasn&#039;t premature&#8230; not that I&#039;ve booked any plane tickets yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down in Australia they&#039;ve been looking at updating their copyright laws to catch up to the digital age (read: to make the laws more favorable for an entertainment industry that refuses to adjust to the market), but seem to be doing so in a way that pretty much guarantees the opposite would occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[9,14,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}