AUSTRALIA'S largest privately owned broadband services provider, Internode, has been snapped up by ISP iiNet for $105 million.

The acquisition of South Australia-based Internode will add approximately 190,000 broadband subscribers to iiNet's customer base to cement the Perth-based provider as the nation's second largest DSL provider and the third-largest supplier of fixed-line broadband services in Australia.
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The pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continues to inspire opponents to come up with creative solutions to circumvent it.

A new anti-SOPA add-on for Firefox, titled “DeSopa,” is such a counter measure.
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A few days ago we reported that no less than 6 IP-addresses registered to the RIAA had been busted for downloading copyrighted material. Quite a shocker to everyone – including the music industry group apparently – as they are now using a defense previously attempted by many alleged file-sharers. ...

UPDATE (TechDirt):

Or not. Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly as possible, before the momentum of opposition builds up even further.
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A man described as the main administrator of movie streaming portal Kino.to has been sentenced to 3 years in jail for criminal copyright infringement. The 27-year-old is said to have made around 230,000 euros profit from the site, which was shut down earlier this year as part of the biggest anti-piracy operation ever to take place on European soil.
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It seems that the copyright infringement issue picks up a new facet every day. Reportedly, in the future advertising networks could be accused of contributing to copyright infringement on websites if they facilitate that infringement (by financially aiding filesharing websites).
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