Gartner launches all-out war on ‘self-interested’ AIIA
One of Gartner Australia's most senior analysts has launched a flagrant attack on the technology industry's peak representative group in a strongly worded blog post taking the group to task for its...
View ArticleIP war: AIIA tries to “enlighten” Gartner
Australia's peak technology industry group has published a strongly worded rejection of a controversial blog post by a senior Gartner analyst, arguing it needed to correct a number of...
View ArticleSpat continues: Gartner rejects AIIA’s “squatter’s logic”
The high-profile falling out between a Gartner analyst and the Australian Information Industry Association continued late last week, with further shots being fired in the battle between the pair in...
View ArticleSamsung beats Apple: But what does it mean?
Australian judges have responded quickly and intelligently. The courts have explicitly based their decisions on perceptions of community benefit and on a coherent interpretation of what the national...
View ArticleActa protests break out as EU states sign up to treaty
MEPs of 21 EU states, including the UK, have signed off on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
View ArticleActa goes too far, says MEP
Kader Arif, the lead ACTA negotiator in the European Parliament, says ACTA potentially cuts access to lifesaving generic drugs and restricts online freedom
View ArticleAct on Acta now if you care about democracy and free speech
The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement could criminalise internet users globally. But it hasn't been ratified yet …
View ArticleWikiLeaks publishes Stratfor emails linked to Anonymous attack
Website says total cache amounts to millions of emails exposing the global trade in intelligence
View ArticleOpening Pandora’s box: secret treaty threatens human rights
The Australian Parliament should reject ACTA because of its impact on human rights – particularly taking into account health care, access to medicines, and development.
View ArticleIs the CSIRO a patent troll? US debate turns feral
An extremely harsh war of words between Australian and international technologists has erupted over a controversial new article published in the United States documenting evidence that Australia's peak...
View ArticleBack off, AFACT: Changing the law is not the answer
The Federal Government should ignore the pathetic demands of the film and TV industry for new legislation to "exterminate" Internet piracy and fix the blatantly obvious problems with its commercial...
View ArticleGreens demand Australia cancel ACTA participation
The Greens have demanded that Australia's Government cancel its participation in the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement international treaty in the wake of an expected imminent rejection...
View ArticleThe marvellously destructive power of the Internet:A rant by Mark Newton
You might have noticed that at Delimiter we love an epic rant, and as we've previously written, former Internode network engineer Mark Newton has form in this area. Whether it be on the issue of the...
View ArticleWould FYX’s global mode have breached copyright?
We should think carefully about the inevitable alarmist claims regarding FYX and be wary about movie industry calls for new laws that protect their interests at the expense of Australian consumers.
View ArticleWhy Pirate Party members are not ‘whiny brats’
There appears to be an assumption within the broader intellectual property industries that members of Pirate Parties are just whiny brats who “want everything for free.” They consider us uneducated...
View ArticleReality check: Piracy is not killing Australian film
Imagine a world where you can only consume culture from government-approved sources, months after its widely publicised release overseas, in low definition, with long term lease agreements where you...
View ArticlePython-iView: Copyright crusader or vigilante operative?
The issue of whether the Python-iView app infringes copyright, particularly it’s download feature, hinges on a number of specific sections of the Copyright Act and a concept of “vigilante...
View ArticleAaron’s Army fights the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The case of Aaron Swartz highlights the need for a reconsideration of punitive and excessive intellectual property enforcement provisions in trade agreements.
View Article“Extortion”: Pirate Party slams piracy letters
The Pirate Party of Australia has described as "extortion as a business model" action by a Sydney-based law firm which has seen Australian ISPs issued with a series of letters requesting they hand over...
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DFAT blocks media from public TPP briefing
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has taken the extraordinary step of rescinding confirmations of attendance for journalists who had registered to attend a public briefing on the...
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