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    Roadshow Films, one of the film studios that brought a copyright case against ISP iiNet, donated almost $500 million to Australian political parties in the lead up to filing its case.

  • Optus won't reprimand pirating users

    Optus director of government and corporate affairs Maha Krishnapillai said today that although it planned to work with other internet service providers and the government on preventing internet piracy, it did not believe in sending alleged infringement notices to users.

  • ISPs still buying ADSL kit

    Australian internet service providers are increasing their purchases of ADSL equipment, according to Ericsson, despite the potential for the construction of the National Broadband Network to make such investments irrelevant in the long term.

  • Conroy calls for piracy code of conduct

    In the wake of iiNet's recent court win, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy has said that he wants the film and internet industries to sit down and try and work out a code of conduct to prevent pirating of copyrighted works rather than working towards legislation changes.

  • iiNet case won't stop Exetel warning users

    ISP Exetel CEO John Linton will continue to pass on alleged copyright infringement notices to customers, including notices from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft.

Blogs (28)

  • Read the blog post - Stilgherrian

    iiNet: The whys and what nows

    Last week the Federal Court ruled that internet service providers are not responsible for copyright violation by their customers. This is an important decision not just for iiNet, which spent around $4 million defending the case, but for all ISPs in Australia and, indeed, globally.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    2010: The good, the bad and the Conroy

    The best thing about 2010 is that it's an election year, and the worst thing about 2010 is that it's an election year. Pressed to deliver concrete results to push their case with voters, KevAgainIn10 and Stephen Conroy will do their damnedest to progress the NBN, Telstra separation, the digital TV switchover and the hated internet filter. But can the Opposition parry?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Welcome to National Censorship Day

    Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian internet.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    How reliable is IP telephony?

    Have you ever heard a weird kind of hissing, crackling or popping noise when calling someone on an IP telephony line? How rare is the phenomenon these days?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    A battery of opinions on the value of data

    As the National Broadband Network pricing debate continues, we should consider which is the most appropriate model for costing a bit that costs virtually nothing to carry.

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  • Rudd eyes piracy

    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said he will look at what he can do when it comes to illegal downloading.

  • iiNet's Malone: Victory portrait

    It's 11am in the morning and the chief executive of Australia's third-largest internet service provider iiNet is striding around his company's Sydney offices, his eyes alight with passion and a big smile on his face.

  • Zombie Generation: The spreading infection

    Standard online safety precautions aren't saving society from increasingly sophisticated networks of infected computers under the control of criminal hackers also known as zombies, a fact which is forcing internet bodies to stronger action.

  • iiNet judgement looms over ISPs' future

    Judgement for the "landmark" case of iiNet versus AFACT will come on Thursday, but with Senator Conroy, lobby groups, consumers and industry members all weighing in on the result, what might the case mean for digital piracy?

  • The war on file sharing hits Australia

    Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?

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Reviews (6)

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    Asus' inexpensive 802.11n router is a bit of a bargain, although it does also bring with it some bargain basement sensibilities.

  • Asus RT-N16 Wireless Router

    Asus' high-end wireless router has plenty of throughput grunt, but we do wish the company would offer better support documentation.

  • iiNet BoB wireless modem

    iiNet customers who yearn for a simple networking life will do well out of BoB, although like most routers, it's not without its quirks.

  • Broadband: Which plan is for you?

    The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.

  • Testing times with broadband

    Complacency by one Internet provider left them with a poor result in our tests but what if this wasn't a test?

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