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• iiNet wins AFACT copyright case

  The High Court of Australia in Canberra has dismissed an appeal by 34 film and television companies led by Roadshow Films against internet service provider (ISP) iiNet over alleged copyright infringement.

• Symantec expects Anonymous to publish more stolen source code

  Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.

• Copyright lawsuit targets owners of non-secure wireless networks

  A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content.

• BitTorrent web downloads hijacked to push fake antivirus

  The publisher of the uTorrent file-sharing program has admitted to suffering a major security breach that allowed attackers to substitute downloads of its client for malware pushing fake antivirus software.

• 200,000 BitTorrent users sued since 2010

  Since the beginning of 2010, a whopping 200,000 BitTorrent users have been sued in mass file-sharing lawsuits by copyright trolls, according to TorrentFreak.

• Aussie filmmakers to premiere local film on ABC iView

  While many Aussie filmmakers are still struggling to reach a local audience who are often disengaged with traditional mediums of broadcasting, one new series has used Web generated content in an attempt to overcome such challenges.

• 'Hurt Locker' lawsuit targets 24,583 BitTorrent users

  Voltage Pictures, producers of the Oscar-winning 2009 film "The Hurt Locker," is suing 24,583 BitTorrent users for downloading the film.

• Netflix grabbing greater share of bandwidth

  Cable killer or not, Netflix takes a big bite out of bandwidth every night in America.

• Google Instant bans 'BitTorrent' word

  What do curse words, porn terms and the word BitTorrent have in common? They're all blacklisted from Google Instant.

• BitTorrent to put its stamp on Taiwanese electronics

  BitTorrent will work with a Taiwanese research institute to develop a certification scheme for local consumer electronics makers who want to put its filesharing applications in their products, a world first for the popular high-speed file-sharing protocol, the research institute said on Friday.

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  Hackers could use leaked Gawker info to attack gov't workers

  Passwords used by people employed by US federal, state and local governments were among those disclosed by the Gawker hack over the weekend, according to a report by PBS NewsHour on Monday.

• BitTorrent for beginners

  Comcast wants to kill it, your next wireless router will probably have it built-in, and you can use it to download the entire GeoCities archive. BitTorrent has come a long way since its public release on July 2, 2001, but unless you're a regular media pirate, you probably haven't used it much. Read on to find out how it works and to clear up a few common misconceptions about it.

• Geocities archive to be released via BitTorrent

  It was about a year ago that Yahoo!-hosted Geocities sites started going offline. For the majority of Internet users, this event was met with little fanfare; Geocities had long gone out of fashion as a free web host and been replaced by sites like Myspace, Facebook, Wordpress, and more recently, Tumblr.

• uTorrent patches application against DLL vulnerability

  The developers of the uTorrent file-sharing application have released an updated version that fixes a problem that could allow an attacker to load malicious code onto a user's computer.

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  AFACT: iiNet stops spam, why not The Pirate Bay?

  The copyright enforcement arm of a string of film studios has told a Federal Court hearing today that Internet service provider iiNet had authorised customers to download illegal movies partly by not “stopping” the infringements.