The creators of PornoTube, a pornographic video sharing site, have been sued by US adult-film company Vivid Entertainment for infringing copyright by allowing users to illegally post clips from its films.
Microsoft-flavoured media company ninemsn has appointed a new chief executive offer, Joe Pollard, who will start next week.
The Federal Minister for Home Affairs, Bob Debus has encouraged state and territory governments to introduce new laws to combat identity theft but observers have cast doubt over their potential effectiveness.
NSW prison inmates will soon be able to use Webcams to talk to their lawyers over the Internet, the NSW government says.
NSW Police Minister, David Campbell, has revealed details of a new project encouraging citizens to capture video and photographic evidence of crimes on their phones and upload it over the Web to law enforcement agencies.
Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?
According to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2007 annual report, Australian consumers should feel pretty safe but that's because it's full of crap.
If Australia is going to take information security seriously, we need more people like the ATO's CIO, Bill Gibson.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other legislation have made data retention a hot topic. But about the flip side of the coin -- what happens when your data has finally served its purpose?
IT managers and CIOs need to take care in the details when signing contracts with software suppliers, to avoid expensive and time-consuming problems later. ZDNet Australia examines the pressing issues surrounding IT contract negotiation.
IT lawyer and ZDNet Australia columnist Jeremy Szwider looks at the legalities of e-mail forwarding.
Enterprises may be aware of the legal changes which have modified torts law and imposed caps on payouts for seemingly outrageous claims against doctors and other professionals. But do IT pros realise that they too could be in the firing line?
Commentary: SCO's lawsuit against IBM has sparked controversy in the open-source world - here are some things for Linux users to consider.
Commentary: SCO's lawsuit against IBM has sparked controversy in the open-source world - here are some things for Linux users to consider.
Trying to find a path through the music copy and share debate is a continuing battle, but should it be?
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
Intrusion detection appears to have hit the bottom of its hype cycle with a particularly loud thud. Is there value beyond the hot air, and how can you make it work productively?
Personalisation has become an accepted part of technological interaction, but what does the future hold?
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