Consumer advocate Choice is taking on fake review fraudsters with a new advertising campaign aimed at ‘fake online reviews and bogus Facebook and Twitter promotions’.
Consumer advocates choice say its research shows 684,000 households are buying digital content from overseas stores, with Choice wanting Australians to have better access to international streaming services.
Consumer advocate magazine CHOICE says today’s draft report from the Competition Policy Review can give Australians the benefits of more competition from overseas markets and new technologies.
Pay TV operator Foxtel has hit back at claims it's anti-competitive and encouraging piracy, describing comparisons with Netflix as "nonsensical."
Australia's ISPs are willing to support the Government's move to tighten piracy laws, but they have urged caution.
Pay TV company Foxtel thinks the Government’s anti-piracy plans are a great idea. Consumer group Choice begs to differ,
Consumer group Choice says the leaked Government ‘Online Copyright Infringement’ discussion paper fails to deal with the real causes of piracy.
Australia may not be exactly lighting the World Cup on fire but one league we are definitely excelling at is illegal downloads - Aussies are 'illegally' downloading Game of Thrones and other TV shows in record numbers, and one consumer group is blaming Foxtel.
Australia's peak consumer advocacy group has called on the Federal Government’s Competition Policy Review to axe the much-criticised ‘Australia tax’ and give consumers the benefits of more competition from overseas markets.
Most Australian mobile phones users are not using all their data allowances. This means they are effectively gifting telcos hundreds of millions of dollars, say consumer organisations.
Consumer group CHOICE says we would lose out under proposed ‘knee-jerk’ GST changes introducing an ‘Internet tax’.
Thousands of Australians could face new criminal penalties for illegally downloading content under the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
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