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The first ‘pirate’ site blocking application in Australia featuring US streaming giant Netflix was granted by a judge in Federal Court this morning. Netflix successfully teamed up with Roadshow Films, Disney, Columbia and many other studios to have well over 100 domain names associated with torrent, streaming and similar sites blocked by local ISPs. The […]
As part of a review into Australia’s mandatory data retention regime, a submission by the Law Society of Australia warns that pirates could be affected due to loopholes in the legislation. Any move to criminalize file-sharing in future, for example, could leave Internet users’ entire download histories open to exposure. Retention of telecommunications metadata is […]
Google has voluntarily agreed to remove 832 pirate sites from its search results after reaching a “voluntary” agreement with content owners and ISPs in Australia. That’s according to Village Roadshow chief Graham Burke who described the move as “Google doing the right thing”. The news appears to come with some caveats, however. Section 115a of […]
Leading Kodi add-on resource TVAddons has received an interesting complaint from Australian cricket governing body, Cricket Australia. While TVAddons quickly complied with its demands, the details of the takedown notice are quite unusual, given that they don’t mention the word ‘copyright’ even once. TVAddons is perhaps the best well known Kodi add-on resource around today. […]