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Relates well to Key Knowledge point "Non-technical constraints on website solutions, including......copyright...." on how the on-line community of YouTube deal with copyright.

The University of NSW says it has issued 238 fines - estimated to total about $100,000 - to students illicitly downloading copyright infringing material such as movies and TV shows on its Wi-Fi network since 2008. UNSW told Fairfax Media on Thursday it made "no apology" for taking "strong action to discourage piracy, which is not only unlawful but unethical"

"On this week's episode of The Simpsons, "Specs and the City", Mr Burns gives every employee of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant a pair of "Oogle Goggles". It seems like an unusually generous and savvy gift, but really Mr Burns just wants to use the devices to spy on his employees. You see where this is going. "

"A man who went to a cinema in the US wearing Google Glass was interrogated by FBI agents for an hour because employees thought that he was illegally recording the movie (his Glass was off). Even if you don't have a lot of context for FBI interrogations that still sounds like a really scary hour."

"The following by is an analysis of legal issues which apply to street photography in NSW Australia."