Cloud alliance sides with Optus on copyright

OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."

OzHub was formed in October 2011 by Macquarie Telecom, Fujitsu, Infoplex and VMware. "To build local consumer and business confidence in cloud computing[and] to establish a regulation framework to promote good business practices and greater transparency to consumers about crucial issues just as where their personal data are held."

When it launched OzHub, Macquarie Telecom said: that the founding members had "joined with Australia's telecommunications consumer representative body [ACCAN] in an initiative to build local consumer and business confidence in cloud computing."