Iran Launched Its Own YouTube

The country has created its own YouTube which would only allow video on approval of the government’s regime.

Mehr, which means “affection” in Farsi, is created for Persian-speaking Internet users. Its aim is to promote and cultivate the local culture. At the moment, the URL YouTube.IR is redirecting to Fars TV, while Mehr, located at http://ir.mehr.ir, appears to be down. Anyway, the service is expected to share content specific to the country, including music videos. Iranian users will also be able to submit their own material.

Australia’s Copyright Law under Discussion

Tech companies keep insisting that the current Australian copyright law needs to be changed in order to welcome the technological revolution. However, Australian Federation against Copyright Theft is perfectly satisfied with the current version of the legislation.

Such tech giants as eBay, iiNet, and Optus had a discussion with the Australian Law Reform Commission. They were arguing that the local Copyright Act should be updated, because the current law has a lot of restrictions – for the use of cloud storage, web search, and caching to name a few.

Australia Will Censor Abusive Portals

The Australian police confirmed it would prosecute Facebook hate page owners. A top copper from Victoria’s Police e-crime squad is reported to be looking at way he could catch and prosecute people who created a Facebook page which denigrated Jill Meagher. The latter was abducted, raped and killed this September.

In most cases, the police can do nothing about online crime, but Greg Dever, Detective Senior Sergeant, is studying the laws and believes he might have grounds to arrest the creators of the online pages on incitement grounds. In the meantime, there has been a

Australian Media Giant Choose BitTorrent for Promotion

Australian Fairfax Media was unsatisfied with the cost of licensing video for its new TV website and simply chose BitTorrent for adding popular material for its audience.

Fairfax TV was recently reported to adopt a very unusual strategy to promote its content. The media giant decided to use the peer-to-peer network for searching the popular videos and find out what its audience is interested in. After this the publisher can contact the copyright holders of the popular videos to make a deal for making them officially available online.

Australia Blamed Hollywood for Absence of Concern

Australia’s Communications Alliance isn’t happy about the movie industry’s absence of concern over piracy. This organization is the dominant telecommunications industry body in Australia, whose main purpose is to regulate the solutions in a sound manner. Australia’s Communications Alliance is also trying to make use of the modern digital era by supervising the enforcement of National Broadband Network.

The CEO of the organization criticized Hollywood efforts of ending with a co-regulatory solution when the question of copyright violation is raised. Communications Alliance believes that the entertainment industry simply doesn’t want to create a precedent of being fair. The Attorney General’s Department has been arranging

Facebook Can Face Legal Action in Australia

The largest social network in the world is having problems with the judicial system of Australia. The troubles flared after the arrest of the individual charged with the murder and rape of Melbourne woman.

The social network was accused of stuffing up the chances of a successful prosecution and the defendant's right to a fair trial. The matter is that Facebook hosted pages inciting hatred against the accused individual. This is why Victoria’s Attorney-General had to notify Facebook that the service could face legal action in the event of failure to remove content which could jeopardize legal trials.

WikiLeaks Founder to Sue Australian Prime Minister

Julian Assange, currently under investigation after two women claimed they were sexually assaulted by him, has decided to pay back and drag another woman into court with claims that she defamed him.

Although Julian Assange believes that it’s too dangerous to face criminal charges in court, he at the same time reckons that it’s absolutely safe for him to launch a lawsuit against Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard for defamation.