Anime downloaders sued in Singapore settle, disappear

The two men at the heart of the first online downloading lawsuit here have backed down from contesting the suit filed against them by a group of Japanese anime studios ( Read more... )

The full trailer for Avatar The Last Air Bender With No Asian Cast Except For The Slumdog Millionaire And The Daily Show's Brown Correspondent has been released. I already have an instant dislike for Katara's pale face, so I'm just going to focus on how awesome ILM's SFX work is.



What does make me happy is the new trailer for Toy Story 3.

Toy ( Read more... )

Despite all my concerns with Avatar The Last Airbender With No Asian Cast Except For The Slumdog Millionaire and The Daily Show's Brown Correspondent I have to admit: the element-bending effects (courtesy of the always fantastic Industrial Light & Magic) look pretty awesome.



Yes I should be working on copyright law matters I just burst my brain ( Read more... )

In a display of complete geekitude today, I delayed going to work this morning in order to attend the Federal Court in Sydney for the judgement in Roadshow Films Pty Ltd et al v iiNet Limited, also known as Hollywood vs. the Internet, also known as The Biggest Internet Case Since Napster and Kazaa That Could Change Your Life. I got there half an ( Read more... )

As an update on yesterday's post, this was great news to wake up this morning.

South Australian Attorney-General backs down, will ditch law outlawing anonymous political bloggingIn Atkinson's words: "It may be humiliating for me but that's politics in a democracy, I'll take my lumps. This way, no one need fear now that they are being censored on ( Read more... )

The South Australian Government has passed laws that may effectively censor political speech during election times.The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires internet bloggers, and anyone making a comment on next month's state election, to publish their real name and postcode when commenting on an election story on South Australian ( Read more... )

This is not a repeat from 2008.

Queensland man in court over cartoon child pornography.

AN IPSWICH man has admitted downloading graphic cartoon porn images featuring child characters from The Simpsons and The Powerpuff Girls TV shows ( Read more... )

For every fan who enjoys any sort of fandom, but particularly the slash/yaoi fangirls a must read from Henry Jenkins: will Australia's proposed internet filtering laws block slash, anime, manga sites and fan communities in Australia?

For samikitty (and anyone who downloads media illegally, ie. everyone on LJ): the Federal Court of Australia is expected to ( Read more... )

For anyone who's following the Proposition 8 challenge in California this month, a couple of links I'm finding useful: first is the liveblog over Mercury News, and second a dedicated blog by two law students from Berkeley.

Going by metafandom there seems to have been an explosion of discussion about slash and appropriation of sexuality which I can't be ( Read more... )

Aokigahara, the forest of suicides at the foot of Mt. Fuji (warning for disturbing images). The place is so infamous for suicides local authorities conduct an annual search to retrieve bodies -- and they suspect there are many more they never find ( Read more... )