piracy
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This Week’s Biggest NBN And Telco News: No More ‘Three Strikes’, But Site Blocking Is In Courts Now
Here’s where we round up all the Aussie news around the ‘net about the ‘net, every week. Check in here for a quick primer on everything from piracy to privacy to data retention and the NBN.
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Netflix Geo-Blocking Crackdown Hits PayPal Users
The game of cat and mouse between Netflix and those customers trying to sneak into watching content from overseas libraries has taken an interesting turn, with e-payments service PayPal refusing to process payments from at least one virtual private network (VPN) provider.
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New Survey Shows Pirates Are More Willing To Pay For Netflix
Do you or does anyone in your household download films, music or television shows vis the internet for free? Does your household subscribe to TV and content streaming services? These were the two questions asked in an online survey of over a thousand Australians, and the results tell a story long suspected; given the option,…
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Netflix Won’t Crack Down On Aussie VPN Users
Netflix’s geoblocking crackdown is “doomed to fail”. That’s the word from Adam Turner at the SMH, who says that the streaming giant would be mad to even make a serious effort to restrict its users to only the region they signed up in or are currently located within geographically.