Plantronics Germany Telstra is offering pre-paid mobile customers new data options for quick use or long-term browsing, giving customers the opportunity to rollover data from month to month. The telco’s Pre-Paid Mobile Broadband Data Passes are being billed as the ideal option for everything from weekends away to year-long data packages for tablet or mobile …
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Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden called Australia’s data retention scheme “dangerous”. Screen capture by CNET/”Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” Former US National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden has delivered a damning verdict on Australia’s new data retention laws, saying they are “radical” and “dangerous,” telling Australians “regardless of whether or not you’re doing anything wrong, you are being watched.” …
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Ken Teegardin, CC BY-SA 2.0 Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has confirmed that Australians will face tax on digital products and services from overseas under new measures to be unveiled tomorrow night as part of the 2015 Budget. Mr Hockey said he would introduce draft legislation to ensure “suppliers of digital products and services into Australia charge the GST on those …
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Dallas Buyers Club. Pinnacle Films The legal letter to be sent to torrenters suspected of pirating “Dallas Buyers Club” will be drafted within a week under orders handed down in the Federal Court today. The letter forms part of the ‘preliminary discovery’ process that will allow the rights holders to identify those suspected of pirating the film before suing those …
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Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET Update, Monday at 7:05 p.m. PT:Twitter declined to comment on the removal of the playable MS-DOS games feature in its feeds. However, the company’s developer guidelines indicate that gaming within the Twitter platform is outside what it calls its Rules for the Road. Twitter warns users on its dev platform, “Do not build end-to-end interactive experiences …
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Google Main Search, CC BY 2.0 Foxtel has called for the likes of Google, Yahoo and Bing to be targeted alongside ISPs under new site-blocking laws on the table in Australia. First introduced to Parliament last month, the site-blocking legislation allows rights holders to request that ISPs block overseas websites that “facilitate” piracy. Under the draft bill, rights holders can …
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The owner of Dodo, M2 Group, is hovering over iiNet in the hopes of acquiring the ISP. Dodo Just one month after TPG revealed its plans to buy out iiNet and take over ownership of the locally-run internet service provider, a rival ISP has announced its intentions to one-up the offer. M2 Group, the parent company of service providers Dodo …
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“Dallas Buyers Club”. Pinnacle Films The makers of “Dallas Buyers Club” could be setting their sights on pirates within the fortnight, as the film’s legal team reveals they’ve asked for the handover of customer information by May 6. The case between Dallas Buyers Club LLC and a number of Australian ISPs, chief among them iiNet, has stretched on since November …
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Quickflix Quickflix has thanked the buzz around the launch of rival video streaming services like Netflix for increased demand and growth in subscriber numbers for the first quarter of 2015. But while its users might be streaming more hours of content, the company reported a cash loss of more than AU$850,000 for the quarter, with just AU$1.26 million on the …
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Image by Nicolas Raymond, CC BY 2.0 “Pirate sites are a sleazy neighbourhood which our children go to and they are selling hardcore pornography and scams such as party pills and steroids.” That’s according to the head of Village Roadshow who has thrown his support behind new anti-piracy legislation put forward to allow rights holders to petition for the blocking …
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