If you’ve tried to check something in Wikipedia in the last hour or two, you’ll probably have seen a blacked out page linking to an explanation of its protest against SOPA – hundreds of other sites are doing similar. It might seem unfair to blackout all these sites worldwide (24 hours without lolcats!) for the [...]

Twitter has been all atwitter today about the ISP filtering campaign in Australia. The Federal Government announced today that the pilot ISP filtering trials have concluded. The Government has considered them a great success and have announced more details of their plans to “improve safety online”. Rather than rehash all the details and responses to [...]

This statement comes from LIANZA – via LISNews.org LIANZA welcomes the announcement by the Prime Minister that Section 92A of the Copyright Act is going to be repealed and that the Government proposes to introduce a much fairer copyright provision to prevent unlawful downloads from the Internet. LIANZA reiterates its support for clear copyright law [...]

With the end of the old year and the start of the new, it is the time for predictions.  There have been many personal ones, along the lines of new year’s resolutions in a sense, but also many from consultants and experts in the field. A few of the more noteworthy ones I have come [...]

Asking how big the internet is, is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. The answer is we really don’t know because it is unorganised, uncatalogued and continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. However, two recent sources are having a guestimate on where the internet is in terms of a [...]