News (36)

  • Judge: MP3 site, ISP breached copyright

    Major record labels in Australia have finally won a legal battle against a Queensland man and his Internet Service Provider for alleged music piracy.

  • Music industry claims Kazaa win

    The Federal Court of Australia has dealt a heavy blow to the managers of peer-to-peer software Kazaa, finding they had authorised users to infringe music industry copyright and directing them to modify the application to reduce the practice.

  • Australian Internet industry warned over Swiftel

    The IIA has asked its members to "contribute" to the defence of member ISP Swiftel against litigation by the music industry.

  • BitTorrent: Sysadmins to face the music

    The federal court has ruled two systems administrators from Internet service provider Swiftel can be sued for alleged music piracy, overriding an earlier decision.

  • Porn firm sues PornoTube over sex video sharing

    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.

Reviews (3)

  • Do you copy? Over and out.

    Last week saw two legal wins for copyright owners in their battle against piracy, but raised questions of whether large corporations are playing fair in the marketplace. If they're so keen on globalisation and having a 'level playing field', lets see them walk the walk themselves.

  • Nokia officially N-raged by N-Gage hack

    Handset giant concedes the game-card code on its mobile phone/game deck has been "bypassed."

  • Keeping it virtually private: 5 Firewall/VPN cards tested

    Want to put a VPN or firewall on your network card? A new class of product handles all the processing, keeping your server free to do the hard work.

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