Ed Husic, Australia’s Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer, has suggested that consumers aren’t all to blame for piracy, with governments and business having to step up and offer people what they want, and that “bureaucratic hammers” will do little to reform a market problem. Writing in Labor Party publication Labor Herald on ‘Piracy and reform in the digital age’, he says that “high prices don’t justify online piracy, nothing does. Creating content costs a lot of time, effort and money – the last thing you want to see is that economic value drained away via piracy. But as much as we should look at this issue through the eyes of a sector that is losing a lot of money through piracy, we should also look through the eyes of consumers who doing the right thing – properly buying content but being ripped off in the process.”
http://advanced-television.com/2015/07/21/australian-mp-anti-piracy-rules-wont-work/
https://www.laborherald.com.au/economy/piracy-and-reform-in-the-digital-age/