The NSW Council for Civil Liberties has joined with student associations in a campaign against the music industries attempts to gain access to personal information in its fight against music piracy.
The ongoing battle between Australian universities and music heavyweights is heating up with the University of Tasmania claiming it made a mistake when preserving files that could contain evidence of music piracy.
Legal representatives from both the Sharman Networks parties and music industry stretched the 13th day of the ongoing trial against the peer to peer software provider for alleged copyright infringing behaviour with arguments over which pieces of evidence will be admissible in court.
Lawyers for music industry players claimed Stephen Cooper received "hundreds of millions of hits" per year to his allegedly illegal music download site, "mp3s4free", as the long-awaited court case against the retired policeman kicked off at the Federal Court in Sydney today.
Sharman Networks' chief technology officer has refuted a claim on the Kazaa Web site that the company could "permanently bar" users who are using its peer-to-peer software to distribute child pornography.
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Rural areas will be welcoming the government's decision to put its money where its politicising is, funnelling $250m into a regional fibre upgrade to six rural centres. Remedying over a decade of near-neglect at the hands of telecoms privatisation, the investment could be the firmest step yet for Labor's NBN dream but with inevitable political questions and a looming election, Rudd and Conroy need to deliver, and quickly, to preserve the NBN's credibility.
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The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) hunt for Australia's third largest internet service provider iiNet is set to resume on Monday, with all eyes on its managing director Michael Malone as he takes the stand.
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