Cyber Law · General · Social Media
The USA presidential campaign is truly underway and the republican party have just held their Republican National Convention. Republican nominee Mr Donald Trump has continually used without permission many artists material in promoting his campaign. Of those artists the music group Queen through their publishers[…]
The 1974 classic movie “The Godfather” is now not safe from internet pirates. Paramount pictures has joined forces with anti-piracy partner IP-Echelon to go after internet subscribers responsible for downloading and sharing the film. What the two parties are requesting is not new, it is[…]
Cyber Law · Intellectual Property Law · Law
The music industry is now attempting to do what DBC where unsuccessful in doing, that is taking the fight against online piracy to the Federal Court of Australia (and hopefully winning) Organisations such as Universal, Warner, Sony, and Albert & Son have filed a joint[…]
It is no real surprise that Kim Dotcom now faces extradition to the United States. A New Zealand Court has ruled that the megaupload founder should be extradited to the USA to face copyright infringement charges and money laundering. Kim Dotcom had tried to fight[…]
This will be an interesting case to follow. “Apple iPhone 4s users have filed a class action in New York over the alleged impact that the iOS9 update had on their devices. In court filings posted by Apple Insider, the class action alleges “deceptive trade[…]
Hi all and happy new year. I hope 2016 will be everything you wish for. As the year closes in, I have now added my honours paper in PDF format onto the site. It can be found under the papers tab of the website. Thanks[…]
The Australian coalition government with bi-partisan support of the ALP are about to create legislation as a cross-party Senate committee has given the tick of approval for new legislation that would give power to telecommunications to block sites that offer pirated content, such as popular[…]
One of the biggest issues, in internet or cyber related crime is the subject of jurisdiction. With the increase popularity of social media platforms and in particular facebook and even twitter, it is always argued what jurisdiction does Facebook or twitter have outside their home[…]
Cyber Law · Intellectual Property Law
The Federal Court handed down an interesting ruling today regarding the illegal downloading and file sharing. It has to do with the movie the Dallas Buyers Club as the plaintiff the Hollywood studio requested Australian ISP’s (mainly iiNet as the lead ISP) to release the[…]
It is great to see that the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK have shutdown botnet networks used to obtain financial data. It is common knowledge that botnets spread malware that compromises a users computer and allows for the theft of financial data. It[…]
Four in 10 people have deleted a social media account in the past year due to privacy worries https://t.co/fqh0cWiY8a
We must have a Federal ICAC immediately.
Border Force boss Roman Quaedvlieg clocks up seven months' paid leave while under investigation https://t.co/xIZsc6cpsw
The scary reason your Wi-Fi is slow https://t.co/UplrPk1GVi
