Attorney-General Christian Porter says the case made today by social media companies against a legislative response to the live streaming of criminal offending was “thoroughly underwhelming”.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has published principles to ensure ISPs claims about broadband speeds aren’t misleading under Australian Consumer Law.
NBN has announced a new discount model for its controversial connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) charge, heeding calls from ISPs that original pricing was unsustainable.
Internet Australia has criticised the government over the launch of its Data Retention Grants Program, reiterating that $128.4 million allocated to the initiative falls "well short" of the total costs incurred by ISPs.
The Data Retention Act has come into effect today, but 84 per cent of ISPs are not prepared to start encrypting and storing their customers' metadata, according to a new survey from Communications Alliance.
Civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) is calling for a halt to the introduction of the Copyright Notice Scheme, under which ISPs will send copyright infringement notices to their customers.
Around 2 million Australians were using paid movie and TV streaming services like Netflix and Stan at the end of June, according to research.
Greens senator, Scott Ludlam, has branded the government’s controversial website blocking bill a "lazy and dangerous" piece of legislation that wouldn’t been happening if the Labor government “hadn’t gone completely missing".
The Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications today released a report to address the problem of government agencies blocking websites without being properly guided.
The government’s metadata regime will open the door to more copyright prosecutions and speculative invoicing, rather than focusing on police investigations and terrorism, according to the Australian Greens.
Under the Copyright (Online Infringement) Bill 2015 introduced into parliament today, Australians could be blocked from accessing overseas-based pirate websites.
Punters who can’t make it to the Gorgeous Festival in McLaren Vale, South Australia, on November 24 will be able to view main stage performances for free in HD if they are an Internode or iiNet customer.
The Attorney’s General Department (AGD) has made unannounced changes to its latest discussion paper on copyright, removing a proposal for a streamlined process for copyright owners to access user details from ISPs for legal reasons
Adelaide-based internet service provider, Internode, may have made four technical roles including that of CIO and network engineer redundant on 2 September, but managing director, Simon Hackett, has added on the role of chief technical officer (CTO).