Optus to appeal ‘TV Now’ copyright infringement finding
Optus has announced that it will seek leave from the High Court of Australia to appeal the recent Full Court of the Federal Court decision that its cloud-based ‘TV Now’ service infringes copyright. Optus has no automatic entitlement to have the High Court hear an appeal. It must seek the consent of the High Court, ... Read the full post ...
Virtual pet owners sue Google over lost virtual gold
The owners of virtual pets in the online world “SuperPoke! Pets” have brought a class action against the game’s owner, Google, for eliminating the “gold” balances in their accounts when the game was closed. The players spent virtual gold to buy virtual items for their virtual pets. The virtual gold was purchased with real money. ... Read the full post ...
US House passes 4 Cybersecurity Bills during “Cyber Week”
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a slate of four cybersecurity Bills as part of “Cyber Week”. The main effects of these Bills are : to provide positive authority to private-sector entities to defend their own networks and to those of their customers, and to share cyber threat information with others in the private ... Read the full post ...
UDRP transfer can be overturned under ACPA due to misleading evidence
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has recognised that a domain name transfer achieved though a successful action under the UDRP can be overturned under the ACPA where the evidence in the UDRP action was misleading. In ISystems v. Spark Networks, the plaintiff sought to overturn a UDRP decision in which its ... Read the full post ...
UK ‘three-strikes’ copyright piracy law put on hold
The introduction of the UK’s controversial graduate response – ‘three-strikes and you’re disconnected’ – process for dealing with online copyright infringement has been delayed for two years. Despite the recent failure of a court challenge by ISPs to the Digital Economy Act‘s provisions on notifying infringing customers, the BBC reports that the UK government has ... Read the full post ...
Optus cloud-based TV recording service found infringing on appeal
The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has ruled that the Optus ‘TV Now’ cloud-based recording service infringes copyright. In National Rugby League Investments Pty Limited v Singtel Optus Pty Ltd, the Full Court upheld the appeal against the first instance decision, which had found that a recording of a TV show using a ... Read the full post ...
Facebook posting of nude photos of ex-lover results in jail sentence
An Australian man has been sentenced to six months jail for an act of revenge that involved posting nude photos of his ex-lover on Facebook. According to the SMH report, the man pleaded guilty to “publishing an indecent article”, but appealed the severity of his sentence. The sentence was confirmed on appeal, but made suspended. ... Read the full post ...
Australian ISP not liable for customers’ BitTorrent copyright infringements
The Australian High Court has ruled in favour of an ISP which failed to terminate access to the Internet for those of its customers engaged in copyright infringement using the BitTorrent protocol. In Roadshow Films v iiNet, various owners of copyright in films sued the ISP on the basis that it “authorized” the copyright infringements ... Read the full post ...
Google’s AdWords links “misleading and deceptive”, says Australian court
An Australian court has found Google guilty of misleading and deceiving consumers with its AdWords-generated sponsored links. Google’s AdWords program inserts “sponsored links” to advertisers in the results of Google web searches. The content of a sponsored link is determined by the search term entered by the searcher. Advertisers select the search terms (keywords) in ... Read the full post ...
The Pirate Bay proposes airborne servers to evade enforcement action
The Pirate Bay has said that it will experiment with using servers carried on small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air, as a way of evading national law enforcement action. The system will use modern radio transmitters that operate at 100Mbps per node, up to 50km away. According to a recent TPB blog ... Read the full post ...
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