internet blocking problem ?

On 09/10/2015 11:10 PM, Alexis Kotlowy wrote: iinet has posted several blogs and position papers decrying poorly thought out responses to intellectual property piracy, and draconian laws that apparently were enacted in Australia in June. They are apparently engaged in a war of words (and maybe more things they are not talking about) with the MPAA and other IP representatives. I suppose if iinet is worried about being sued for their user's making pirated content available for download, then blocking people outside .AU from seeing member's web pages might be a rational way to stop US groups from detecting the pirated content. OR, maybe some groups in the US have convinced some ISPs in the US to block certain .AU web sites. Ah ha! I see that iinet.net.au and members.iinet.net.au resolve to DIFFERENT IP addresses. (Neither of these respond to pings, but that is not that unusual, lots of facilities don't allow pinging from outside.) Jon