The Australian reports that executives at Harvey Norman are considering their position on selling the McTivia media streamer, due to concerns over its potentially copyright-infringing promotion of VPN services to access overseas video content.
Local suitors have reportedly been told that Netflix wants to launch in Oz in the next 12 to 18 months. I wouldn’t be surprised. They’re expanding into Latin America this year, and here we are rolling out an NBN. But what would it mean for the likes of Bigpond Movies or Fetch TV?
The Pirate Bay’s new IP-masking anonymity service for paranoid pirates—Ipredator, whose name also plays off Sweden’s new IPRED anti-piracy law—already has over 100,000 sign-ups.