Senate debates

Monday, 22 June 2015

Bills

Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015; In Committee

5:12 pm

Photo of Scott LudlamScott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

So for people listening to this debate from outside this house: if it is a rights-holder's view that an individual user is using a VPN to get a hold of content that is deemed to be in breach of copyright, who exactly would be injuncted? I guess what I do not understand is this: if there is a service provider out there offering a VPN service, is that site going to be made unreachable by everybody? Would you expect that a court would knock over use of that service for the entire Australian population, if one user is using it for illegitimate purposes? I genuinely do not understand how you are proposing to make this work.

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