Links for February 21st 2010 through February 26th 2010: iTunes sells 10 billionth track [BBC News] – “Johnny Cash’s Guess Things Happen That Way has become the 10 billionth track to be sold at the ITunes online store. Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling was officially named the site’s most downloaded track, with their single [...]
Resolving a court case stretching back from 2008, Australian Internet Service Provider iiNet was vindicated as the the courts found that Australian ISPs did not ‘authorize’ copyright infringement by providing the internet to customers. An obviously jubilant iiNet CEO Mike Malone used the press interest in the story to invite copyright holders to work with [...]
Links for September 2nd 2009 through September 3rd 2009: Copyright protection without the court action [Blogs - Twisted Wire - ZDNet Australia] – An excellent little podcast looking at the challenges challenges to copyright in the digital age, but more importantly exploring alternative distribution models which could circumvent many of the current big media strategy [...]
Links for August 15th 2009 through August 20th 2009: iiNet uses Telecommunications Act to boost copyright case [Australian IT] – "iiNet has put two new lines of legal defence before the Federal Court in its bid to stop a group of entertainment companies suing it for copyright infringement. … barrister Richard Cobden today ventured a [...]
As most people in Australia would now be aware, one of the most important developments in terms of civil rights and the Australian internet has now gone before the courts as a consortium, led by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) is suing ISP iiNet for refusing to cut off customers for alleged (not [...]
