Technical officer for Altnet, Anthony Rose, today had his application to be struck out from the alleged music copyright infringement charges against Sharman Networks and affiliated parties denied in court today.
Lawyers for Universal Music put the hard word on Sharman Networks in Federal Court today attempting to force the company to reveal its corporate structure and anonymous director. The Universal Music parties' senior counsel, John Nicholas, claimed the company has purposely been set up with no visible line of command to "resist a claim like this".
Sharman Networks' lawyers have been asked to reveal the identity of the company's owner for the first time.
Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment (BDE) have been denied application for leave to appeal Anton Piller orders that facilitated raids on the companies' premises.
Sharman Networks were called back to court today to settle a dispute over evidence confiscated under Anton Piller (or civil search warrant) orders from CEO Nikki Hemming's house last February. The raids followed allegations of copyright infringement made by Universal Music Australia.
While there's not much that's more fun than stirring up Linux and Windows zealots into a frenzy of spite against each other, we thankfully finally seem to be approaching a more measured universe in which technology choices can be made based on suitability rather than preconception.
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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.
If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
If the Mac and the PC are the yin and yang of the tech universe, then these two seeming opposites should be able to coexist harmoniously.
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.
Since lifting its university-only restrictions in September 2006, Facebook has become the poster child for social networks and attracted more than 65 million users. But will it survive 'the next big thing'?
With the acquisition of Trolltech, Nokia has made its largest bet yet on changing the course of the industry.
Investors may be panicking, but Seagate CEO Bill Watkins says business and tech trends paint a different picture than the one on CNBC.
iTunes 7 includes some great updates, like gapless playback, games downloads and a better interface, but Australian users so far miss out on the movie downloads available to American users.
Designed as a phone first, the slimline G600 is an excellent camera phone if you don't mind going without a slew of features available in its competition.
Apple has released what has to be the thinnest notebook ever -- the MacBook Air.
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