“Freedom of Information.”
In late September, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department met with internet service providers and representatives of content rights holders.
The copyright lobby and its many faces and fronts are being given an audience with the Attorney General’s Department and platform on which to pressure ISPs into an industry code for ‘dealing’ with file sharers .– Rodney Serkowski
Serkowski, the then president of Pirate Party Australia, requested minutes and documents relating to the meeting under the Freedom of Information Act 1982. After considerable delay for a request of this nature, the documents were finally released. Pirate Party Australia will be releasing a press release after they have finished analysing the documents, however we have noted the following:
This is what freedom of information looks like in the Twenty-First Century.
Disgraceful.
gazo
December 27, 2011 at 10:06 pm
I don’t understand what the point of Freedom of Information laws are when they are allowed to do this in response to a request.
sambk
January 14, 2012 at 12:34 am