The Federal Government is planning a radical overhaul of telecommunications interception rules, which has some concerned it may be used to force internet service providers (ISP) to inspect customers' online activities.
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.
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) legal action over iiNet's alleged breach of copyright is squaring up to be a battle over the ISP's privacy obligations under the Telecommunications Act.
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.
The New Zealand Government has released a discussion document for public consultation that calls for more powers for the Copyright Tribunal.
Do you ever get the urge to be naughty, especially if you are never found out? Do you ever fancy committing a crime and not have to worry about having your name splashed all over the papers?
As the NBN bypasses the airwaves and offers a new pipe into 90 per cent of Australia's homes, could long-languishing IPTV services spell the beginning of the end for TV as we know it?
Even the dim-witted bad guys in the Bond flick Quantum of Solace know that concentrating lots of power in a small place may not be the best idea. So how could Stephen Conroy and ACMA have been surprised when the alleged web filter blacklist made its debut?
It looks like AusCERT and GovCERT have worked out their issues and are no longer stepping on each others' toes.
It's hard to think about anything else today other than Australia's ludicrous 1-0 defeat this morning by Luis Medina Cantalejo, oops I mean Italy.
Sol Trujillo has, not for the first time and perhaps not for the last, ignited a furore, this time over his charge that Australians are racist. While his broader comments mischaracterise a country generally welcoming to people of different cultural backgrounds, there is also some validity to them when it comes to the way he was treated during his stint here.
From dead parrots to ACCC lawsuits, the National Broadband Network and Fake Stephen Conroy, it's like Telstra is lost in T.S. Eliot's epic poem The Wasteland.
Landmark Federal Court legal action by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) against ISP iiNet highlights the competing interests of ISPs and rights holders in respect of unauthorised filesharing, and should expose the inability of the Australian Copyright Act to satisfactorily resolve the issue.
Cybercrime poses a growing threat to companies and governments around the world, yet experts are concerned law makers and judicial systems are still not equipped to provide an adequate response.
Top executives should face prison if their organisations are found to be responsible for losing customer data.
Lenovo's new ThinkCentre A61e is primarily a business PC, but it also has crossover appeal as a home office system, given its small size -- which echoes that of the Mac Mini and other recent, small-scale desktops.
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The Federal Government has announced it will make it illegal to change a mobile phone's unique IMEI number in a move to strengthen attempts to end rampant mobile theft.
"Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks"--Text of e-mail message that accompanies files spreading the W32.Sircam.worm@mm virus.
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