We know online piracy exists; we know governments want to stop it – but what are the options?
Richard Freudenstein, CEO of Australia’s largest pay-TV provider Foxtel, has joined the chorus of entertainment…
Concerns about the NBN destroying Australian music are just scaremongering.
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The NBN could have disastrous results for the local [music] industry.
At least, that was the view of peak recording industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and local…
Australia’s High Court has found in favour of Internet service provider iiNet in a high profile piracy case that is being closely watched around the world.
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By Nicolas Suzor, Queensland University of Technology
In what is being billed as iiNet versus Hollywood, the Australian internet service provider has come out an apparent winner after the High Court dismissed a copyright infringement case brought by industry…
News Corporation is facing claims a subsidiary engaged in piracy against pay TV rivals in a bid to destabilise them.
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The Australian Financial Review has published allegations that a “secret unit” within Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation undertook a program of piracy against pay television operators in a bid to damage…
The creative sector may need a little help protecting itself online.
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Creators of online content should feel free to share material online without fear of non-attribution or piracy, or having their copyright or trademarks misused. Plainly, the current system of enforcement…
The “scorched-earth” tactics espoused by SOPA are raising serious concerns.
Abode of Chaos
A pair of bills currently making their way through US legislature has set off alarm bells among internet technologists and users worldwide. The aim of PROTECT-IP, in the Senate, and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy…
Is tighter online regulation a cause for despair or jubilation?
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Battle lines have been drawn in the US between proponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), currently being debated, and those who oppose any regulation of the internet.
On one side are organisations…
A fully regulated internet may have come another step closer.
Horia Varlan
Last week, the English High Court ordered British Telecom (BT) to block access to a members-only website that offers links to pirated films.
NewzBin2, the site in question, offers links to pirated films…
If you download shanties illegally, the iCloud may not float your boat.
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Some people, including on this site, have suggested there’s a loophole in Apple’s new iCloud that will allow people who illegally download music to somehow “launder” their dirty music files, getting a…
Observers are making a song and dance about potential misuses of the iCloud.
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Was Steve Jobs'announcement of the Apple iCloud yesterday music to your ears?
It certainly takes cloud computing a significant distance further along the path of integration.
All your devices – PC, iPad…
