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Category: Polls
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What do you think of the iiNet decision?
Today Justice Cowdroy handed down judgment in the long-running iiNet litigation, completely dismissing the copyright owners’ complaint against the Perth-based ISP and ordering them to pay costs. His Honour held that iiNet did not authorise the P2P infringements simply by providing internet access, even though it may have known about them. See the summary post… Read more →
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Are you a:
Sometimes I get curious about who reads this blog. Judging by the number of *.unimelb.edu.au and *.uq.edu.au visitors, I suspect that you’re mostly law students looking for notes. Am I wrong? Read more →
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BCS/LLB graduates: which night for dinner?
Here’s a fairly random spread of evenings in the coming months — indicate on which, if any, you would like to join me and the other BCS/BIS/BEng(IT)/LLB students for a dinner to celebrate finishing our respective “IT”/Law degrees. If nothing suits, post a comment below so we can organise something else — it would be… Read more →
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Preferred way to sound in the new year?
As another year draws to a close, many take the opportunity to reflect upon resolutions kept, promises broken, achievements, happenings and other suchlike. The day, of course, represents only another revolution of the sun — a relative, abstract point in space at which the earth rests at a particular angle vis-a-vis the sun (in fact,… Read more →