iiNet must be really proud parents right now. In addition to their recent win in court against Hollywood giants DFACT, Australia’s number 2 DSL provider has relaunched the BOB brand with the ‘iiNet BoB’.
The long-expected appeal against iiNet has been dismissed in Federal Court today.
Cheaper plans, plans with more data, and all with no off-peak times to worry about.
IPTV provider FetchTV lines up another Aussie ISP as Internode announces “early adopter” program for the Pay TV platform.
Power to the People: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, not content with their local service provider, recently took matters into their own hands and literally dug a ditch to install their own modest 100Mbps fibre optic Internet connection.
No idea from which back corner of the web this internet meme has come from, but it worked for Watchmen, so it will almost definitely work for the proposed ISP internet filtering scheme that the Rudd government keeps pushing.
Japanese internet service providers plan on disconnecting evil filesharing pirates in some of the most severe anti-p2p tactics worldwide. Due to pressure from music, video game and movie companies, the ISPs would warn the offender via email before cutting the cord if the bootlegger in question didn’t cease and desist. Though such a punishment may not seem as bad as the multimillion-dollar fines levied by the RIAA in the US, we think a life without internet may be worse than one without money. [AFP]
Tomorrow is the deadline for ISPs to have their networks wired up with G-Man-mandated surveillance equipment which will make it easier for the FBI to snoop, spy and wiretap the intertubes, per the FCC’s expanded 2002 interpretation of the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. (Clearly an older law, since it does not make for a catchy acronym.)
The CALEA was originally written to make digital phone lines easier to wiretap. In the case of cell phones, where the tech has “100% penetration, it’s credited with boosting the number of court-approved wiretaps a carrier can handle simultaneously, and greatly shortening the time it takes to get a wiretap going, ” according to Threat Level.
For the low, low price of $164, you can check out the official specs ISPs will use to route over pretty much any “information sent or received through a user’s broadband connection, including on-line banking activity” should the FBI be granted a court order to see what’s flowing through their (or your) intertubes.
So happy surfing tomorrow! And be sure to use emoticons! FBI agents are people too, and I bet a smiling face would really brighten their day. — Matt Buchanan
Reminder: Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day [Threat Level]
Internode’s booth is pretty boring — c’mon, it’s a network booth after all! But they did have this very cool poster showing the details of their Australian network, all its nodes, peers and exchange points, as well as how fat the major pipes are between cities. It’s utterly geeky, but yeah, I’d probably be happy looking at something like this on my wall.
I kid! I’ve already got one of those maps of the Internet. That’s much cooler.
Fess up! Any Internode lovers out there keen to get one of these posters?
Check out the full chart right here. -Seamus Byrne
