Josh Taylor: Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands

It really is shocking. For decades, copyright laws have been enforced; and various new laws and powers have been added to prevent people from sharing content with each other. And yet now, it seems governments are willing to accept that big companies are allowed to just take whatever content they want and put it into their own products to on-sell however they like. Like, governments have gone out of their way to block people's access to sites like zlib; but their the entire zlib archive is just downloaded as a matter of routine business by mega-corps - not to be read, but to be exploited for profit, with nothing at all given to the actual source of the value; not even acknowledgement or a 'thank you'. And certainly not with consent. Is this somehow ok?

Listening to the politicians today on Afternoon Briefing. There is a lobby campaign from Big Tech saying “You need to hurry or you’ll miss out”. You can tell the word are coming straight from lobbyists because the politicians literally had no clue what that actually means.