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• AFACT attacks Westnet piracy policy

  iiNet managing director Michael Malone today denied that cancelling iiNet subsidiary Westnet's policy to forward copyright breach notifications was designed to be obstructive to copyright holders.

• iiTrial: Roadshow inked iiNet content deal

  iiNet's legal counsel this morning ridiculed Village Roadshow's involvement in the case against the ISP, revealing Roadshow Movies had signed a deal to distribute its content over iiNet's so-called Freezone service.

• Sydney movie, music pirate earns jail time

  The Australian arms of the music and film industry have won a victory against piracy with the news that Sydney man Yong Hong Lin has been handed a three-month jail term for selling illegal imported discs from his Eastwood music and movie store.

• Melbourne man convicted of piracy

  A Melbourne man was yesterday found guilty on six offences relating to CD and DVD piracy in the Melbourne Magistrates Court and fined $24,000 plus prosecution costs.

• Studios win Sydney piracy victory

  The local arms of film and music studios have claimed a victory in their war against copyright offences, with a Sydney man convicted for selling pirated content last week.

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  Flash memory takes the hire path

  Devices which flaunt their flash memory are often frowned upon in a corporate setting, but it turns out that you can actually use them as a novel recruitment aid.

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  Corporate Portishead mashups wouldn't be dumb

  You hear a lot about mashups in Web 2.0 -- where one data source is combined with another to produce a new application where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- but the musical version of the term is far more apposite to corporate uses of 2.0 techniques than anything which relies on Google Maps APIs.

Features and Case Studies (14)

• ISP-level content filtering won't work

  Federal Government plans to introduce ISP-level filtering to provide a 'safer' internet experience for Australian families are likely to be met with significant resistance from within the ISP community.

• Who guards the guards: Security

  Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".

• Celebrating three decades of Apple

  In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the UC Berkeley dorms selling "blue boxes" -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.

• MIT's open communications campaigner

  Andrew Lippman thinks communities will be key to the future of communications tech.

• The open-source techie who means business

  Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop.

Reviews (17)

• Apple's patent bending

  Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.

• iTunes makes Windows debut

  Apple ventures into new territory with its music service. But can it make the balance sheet sing?

• Can the music industry change?

  In order to survive, the IT industry has gone through some big changes in the last few years. by contrast, the music industry still doesn't get it.

• 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.

• Can't stop the music

  Trying to find a path through the music copy and share debate is a continuing battle, but should it be?

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