Talk:Australian Screen Association

AFACT organisation name controversy - Name may be fraudulent and deceptive
Given that most of the companies behind AFACT are American, the company name may well be a deliberate attempt to pass off in an attempt to defraud.

49.178.6.24 (talk) 15:50, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Not necessarily, because if the members with the American sounding names are all Australian legal entities, i.e. just the local offices of the American companies, then they have a right to call themselves 'Australian'. It is an issue with all foreign ownership in Australia; think hypothecally about an 'Australian soft drinks manufacturers association'. That'll be mostly Coca Cola Amatil, Pepsi and ..... anyone else out there?


 * Piracy is quite a serious issue; like all theft that you let go unpunished it is likely to pollinate the criminal mindset. It is also distressing that the little guy does not have the means to zap the copyright thieves. My novel (LA PLEVITSKAYA, A Gypsy singer's life in Tsarist Russia and in Exile) is offered for download on a site called 'Blogymate'. I never authorized a digital version for download, so it must have come from hacking. I do not know where blogymate is, but even if I knew I doubt I could afford to take them to court and shut them down. The first few times they took the page down, saying it's their users and they're not responsible which is of course BS. Last time I wrote to them, I no longer received a reply and the illegal offer is still there. How do we little guys feel when our material is pirated? Will we respect other people's copyright next time? Luckily I am not tempted because I don't watch movies any more because they feel so artificial and plasticky these days, but I also lack the technical skills. Our musical copyrights from the 60s and 70s are pirated bigtime. Ally Hauptmann-Gurski 144.136.192.4 (talk) 04:54, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Proposal to move this page to "Australian Screen Association"
I propose to rename this page because I failed to do it because I found an error. Would you do this for me? SuperArticleGuy (talk) 06:27, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Done! Orthogonal1 (talk) 03:53, 30 October 2015 (UTC)