Senator Conroy mocked over suggestion that ISPs could all voluntarily agree to mandatory filtering of Internet connections.
It's been a long battle between Australia's Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy and those opposed ...
Internet filtering on the ISP level has been taking hold in some countries around the world. While not as widespread as the so-called "Three Strikes and Your Out" proposals ...
Gets off easy, had faced up to 90 years imprisonment and over $1 million USD in fines for copyright infringement.
The MPAA and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) have ...
Refuses to admit customers engage in copyright infringement, and questioned whether it's one-to-one nature and transfer of pieces of a work rather than it's whole qualifies as making them "available ...
Says that the professor who insinuated that an unfiltered internet had no place in a democracy is misrepresenting the issue.
Yesterday, we highlighted a professor who called people at ...
Says people like the Electronic Frontier Australia are a bunch of extremists.
It may be difficult for some to read what this professor has published in Australian IT without ...
After the internet filtering trial, there will be no such thing as opting out of the internet filters.
The internet filtering plan from Australia seems to keep getting more and more ...
Australian digital rights organizations are applauding the high turnout in a country-wide demonstration against proposed Australian internet blacklists.
The Electronic Frontiers Australia recently applauded the high turnout for protests ...
While on the surface, it appears to be a standard report on the ISPs refusing to comply with the idea of being the copyright police, a section of a very ...
Sometimes, news reports end up being merely propaganda for anti-piracy efforts. Sometimes, these efforts spread blatantly false information - we look at one of the latest efforts out of ...
Trying for force ISPs into becoming copyright police seems to be a hot trend for the copyright industry these days. Then again, ISPs rarely are willing to go for ...
The timing couldn't have been better. A new study coming out of Australia has concluded that content filtering technology has shown significant improvement, but couldn't tell the difference between ...
BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had pirated software produced by American ...
A new Australian study says "huge delays" in airing overseas TV programming locally are to blame for an increase in piracy in the Land Down Under.
The UK's Sky TV ...
To fight piracy, the Australian broadcaster allows you to download an episode 5 days before it actually airs.
The Australian TV broadcaster Network TEN has decided on a new plan ...
We've spent years complaining about the completely bogus stats put out by the likes of the BSA, the RIAA and MPAA about just how much "piracy" is costing them. These ...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or ABC, has just dipped into music downloads. According to a recent article in Digital Webcast, the broadcaster has tapped destaMusic.com to power downloads for various ...
As announced back in May this year, the Australian government is funding research into the nature, impact and extent of criminal copyright infringement.
To be undertaken by the Australian Institute of ...
