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| Jan 21, 2012 | Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend? | The foundation-stone of Australia’s defence policy is our alliance with the United States. Known as the ANZUS treaty, on paper this alliance guarantees mutual defence. In practice, the friendship is far from equal. As with their treatment o... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Private Anti-Piracy Investigator Spills The Beans | Hollywood goes to extremes to protect its interests worldwide. By now it’s public knowledge that MPAA-funded groups are lobbying at the highest political levels, but when it comes to law enforcement they have their ways of being heard too. ... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | Questionable 'Piracy' Study Found; Details Show It's Even More Ridiculous Than Expected | Thanks to G Thompson for pointing us to where the BSA has stashed a copy of that mysterious “piracy” research report we were just talking about, which was apparently written by someone named Emilio Ferrer. It’s embedded below, and it’s even... |
| Jul 24, 2010 | Tech News Sites Tout Misleading BitTorrent Piracy Study | Every so often a new study surfaces that attempts to describe the BitTorrent landscape. Yesterday a study by the Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) was publicized (pdf) and the researchers found that only 0.3% of all torrents were... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | Movie Studios Sue ISP Over BitTorrent Piracy | iiNet, one of Australia’s largest ISPs with over 1,400 staff, was the first company in the country to offer DSL speeds over 1.5 Mbit/s to the regular consumer market, and now offers speeds of up to 24 Mbit/s. These relatively healthy speeds... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Australian Drug Mafia to Sell Pirated DVDs? | When you get in any sort of reporting, you start to see the same sort of stories crop up. We’ve been writing for almost 3½ years, and even in that short time, and in as narrow a field as I keep an eye on, we see the same things crop up. In... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Australian Police Caught Pirating Movies | According to The Australian, during an audit of computer systems by the South Australian police force’s IT branch, police computers belonging to hundreds of police officers were found to contain movies. The origin of these movies is not cle... |
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Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning AFACT, among them “Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend?” (Jan 21, 2012) and “Private Anti-Piracy Investigator Spills The Beans” (Oct 3, 2011).
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AFACT is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 31, 2012.