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Displaying items by tag: Choice

Tuesday, 09 December 2014 06:23

Dumb. Dumber. The two biggest piracy drivers

Guess what? People don’t pirate content because they are digital buccaneers. They do it because it’s the only way they can get content, either at a reasonable price or at all.

Published in Technology Regulation

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’.

Published in Home Tech

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.

Published in Entertainment

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.

Published in Technology Regulation

Pay TV operator Foxtel has hit back at claims it's anti-competitive and encouraging piracy, describing comparisons with Netflix as "nonsensical."

Published in Technology Regulation
Monday, 01 September 2014 15:53

ISPs willing to walk the plank with Abbott, Brandis

Australia's ISPs are willing to support the Government's move to tighten piracy laws, but they have urged caution.

Published in Government Tech Policy
Thursday, 31 July 2014 07:06

Copyright – Industry versus consumers

Pay TV company Foxtel thinks the Government’s anti-piracy plans are a great idea. Consumer group Choice begs to differ,

Published in Technology Regulation

Consumer group Choice says the leaked Government ‘Online Copyright Infringement’ discussion paper fails to deal with the real causes of piracy.

Published in Technology Regulation
Wednesday, 18 June 2014 14:02

Foxtel to blame for rampant piracy, says Choice

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.

Published in Entertainment
Wednesday, 11 June 2014 14:07

Calls for 'Australia tax' to be scrapped

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.

Published in Technology Regulation
Thursday, 13 March 2014 07:09

Mobile users ‘wasting their data allowance’

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.

Published in Mobility
Wednesday, 27 November 2013 07:49

CHOICE fights the ‘Internet tax’

Consumer group CHOICE says we would lose out under proposed ‘knee-jerk’ GST changes introducing an ‘Internet tax’.

Published in Technology Regulation
Friday, 15 November 2013 05:42

CHOICE weighs in on TPP copyright debate

Thousands of Australians could face new criminal penalties for illegally downloading content under the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.

Published in Technology Regulation
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 12:43

E-tail entrepreneur Kogan slices brand name prices

Although Ruslan Kogan has taken his surname and turned it into a brand name, there's clearly plenty o' cash to be made from selling existing top brands at competitively low prices, with Kogan promising 'up to 46% off' retail pricing on brands like Apple, HP and Dr Dre.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
According to research in the United Kingdom, your past preferences and present choices determine your attitudes of preferring things and making decisions in the future about such pleasurable things as cars, expensive gifts, and vacation spots.

Published in Biology
Choice, The Australian Consumers Association, wants tougher action to reign in the promoters of ringtones, wallpapers and other services sold via premium SMS, including a double opti-in requirement and an external developed  independently monitored industry code.

Published in Market
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