Google Blackout In Australia

If Cory's analysis is correct, and I don't see where it's wrong, you won't be able to Google™ anything from Australia.

Australia's new copyright law may result [in] search engines['] blocking access to the country. PM John Howard sold Australia's copyright law out as part of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, through which Australia agreed to change its copyright laws to surpass America's own disastrous system.

The new law will create punishing potential liability for search engines who do not secure permission for indexing, cacheing and and searching every website in their database. In order to protect themselves from liability, search engine operators would have to contact every single web-author who ever lived.

So we outside Australia couldn't access Australian data and the Aussies couldn't access anything. They just won't have Google™.

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