The Australian Government is seeking feedback to ascertain the effectiveness of the process that was put in place in 2015 to lessen the incidence of downloading of copyrighted material.

Telstra’s latest free data day saw initially fast download speeds, but as the day wore on, things got slower and slower, with downloaded data amounts breaking a new record.

Broadband provider iiNet has said it is working with a law firm to offer free legal advice to customers who receive a warning letter or speculative invoice from the copyright holders of the Dallas Buyers Club movie.

The Honourable Justice Perram will order iiNet and associated ISPs to divulge the names and physical addresses of customers associated with each of the 4,726 IP addresses.

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.

Most Australian consumers fear they will face higher Internet bills if ISPs are made responsible for monitoring and punishing people who illegally download content.