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Displaying items by tag: Pirates

Friday, 16 February 2018 08:10

Govt opens review into efficacy of copyright law

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.

Published in Entertainment

Microsoft has announced that pirated copies of Windows 7 and 8.1 will be upgraded free to Windows 10 but will stay in a non-genuine state until paid for.

Published in Home Tech

The slippery slope to Australia becoming an authoritarian capitalist state with restricted Internet access like China is looming with the excuse being that pirate sites need blocking, even though VPNs can easily get around government enforced restrictions.

Published in Fuzzy Logic

A series of tweets by über content creator and empire builder Rupert Murdoch, has caused online controversy by blaming Google for helping to allow piracy to occur, while accidentally claiming universal anger at Optus when he meant POTUS Obama.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 11:09

'Pirates' spend more on music than the rest of us

Another survey has found that people who download music from unsanctioned sources - those the industry likes to call pirates - are actually some of the music industry's best customers.

Thursday, 02 April 2009 19:50

Conroy jumps out of filter fire into iiNet ire

Senator Stephen Conroy's watch as Communications Minister seems to be going from bad to worse after publicly making comments that could land him legal hot water. The comments at a public telecoms conference about a high profile court case involving ISP iiNet have been deemed by a number of sources as inappropriate, defamatory and potentially prejudicial to the case.

Published in Beerfiles
Artists and file sharers alike are watching the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden with interest.  It's a trial that strikes at matters of copyright, of liberty and the power of the U.S. recording artist's association. It's also a trial that is introducing new terms to our vocabulary, particularly the King Kong defence and datanörd.

Published in Networking
Saturday, 24 January 2009 19:05

Broadband Tax for Brits?

How would you tackle the problem of online movie and music piracy? The British Government is wondering if a broadband tax might be the answer.

Published in Government Tech Policy

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