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  • Telstra takes ACCC to High Court

    update: Telstra has signalled it will challenge regulatory constrictions enforced by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in Australia's highest court.

  • Competition watchdog savages AU mod chip ruling

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has decried a ruling by the Federal Court that mod chips designed to circumvent copy protection features on gaming consoles are illegal.

  • Microsoft poised for Australian XBox Live mod chip crackdown

    Microsoft Australia's regional XBox office has given strong indications it would mimic its US headquarters' policy of penalising XBox owners that use mod chips in their consoles by refusing them access to XBox Live.

  • ACCC in court over PS2 regional coding debate

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has stepped into a Federal Court case to challenge the international agreement on regional coding of DVDs.

  • Conroy slams iiNet court defence

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has slammed iiNet, calling the ISP's defence in the Federal Court case brought against it by the Australian Federation against Copyright Theft something which "belongs in a Yes Minister episode".

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  • Lies, damned lies and telco stupidity

    Earlier this month, Telstra put out a press release trumpeting that it's come up with a new phone coaching service to help people who are "bamboozled" by their mobiles. Another excellent example of wrongheaded thinking from the mobile industry.

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  • Telstra lost in the wasteland

    From dead parrots to ACCC lawsuits, the National Broadband Network and Fake Stephen Conroy, it's like Telstra is lost in T.S. Eliot's epic poem The Wasteland.

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