Letting in the sunlight…
by Roderick on December 22, 2011
The following documents were received from the Attorney-General’s Department under the Freedom of Information Act (1982). They pertain to a secret meeting between copyright industry lobbyists and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Much of this information has not been previously made publicly available. All information made accessible to me is now publicly available.
Analysis will follow in time. Those that know, understand my current personal situation precludes me from committing time to commenting and analysing the issue. For all comments, I’d recommend contacting Pirate Party Australia as I am informed they will now analyse the documents.
- Serkowski - Part (c)(4)&(5).PDF
- Serkowski - part (a)(1).PDF
- Serkowski - part (a)(2).PDF
- Serkowski - part (a)(3).PDF
- Serkowski - part (a)(4).PDF
- Serkowski - part (b)(1).PDF
- Serkowski - part (b)(2).PDF
- Serkowski - part (b)(4) 2.PDF
- Serkowski - part (b)(4).PDF
- Serkowski - part (b)(5).PDF
- Serkowski - part (c)(1).PDF
- Serkowski - part (c)(2)&(3).PDF
- Serkowski - part (c)(6)(7)&(8).PDF
- Serkowski - part (c)(9)&(10).PDF
- Statement of Reasons - Serkowski.pdf
UPDATE: Renai Le May at Delimiter has quickly picked up on one of the central themes of the documents – consumers were and continue to be excluded from the process. This exclusionary approach is standard practice for the Attorney-General’s Department.
UPDATE 2: Mozart has come straight to the point — what does transparency and open government look like in modern Australia?
UPDATE 3: Michael Lee at ZDNet has a good summary of the issues and themes within the released documents.
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by Pirate Feed (@piratewiki) (@piratewiki) (@piratewiki) (@piratewiki) on December 22, 2011 at 11:38 am. #
[...] The individual’s name was censored in the FoI documents. The documents are available in full at the website of the former president of the Pirate Party Australia, Rodney Serkowski, who issued the FoI request for the documents. Delimiter has also issued a similar FoI request and [...]
by Secret piracy talks: Govt banned consumer groups | Delimiter on December 22, 2011 at 2:01 pm. #
[...] received by former Pirate Party president Rodney Serkowski, and first reported by Delimiter, bring to light a private meeting between industry groups held on [...]
by Consumers not ready for piracy talks: govt on December 23, 2011 at 6:18 am. #