eBay Australia has not ruled out taking court action to ensure its new payment policy is enforced, even though the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) released a draft proposal to revoke its immunity from anti-competitive sanctions if it enforces the policy last month.

The company said it would fight for the "safety benefits" for "consumers". However, some say the new plan was "very aggressive" - and yesterday, about 50 members of the auction site and interested parties gathered around a conference to discuss the notice, which currently has a July 3 deadline for all submissions - which means you got two days to get your anger out.

About 90 percent of comments opposed the new plan - though Simon Smith, eBay Australia’s chief, said that it would be addressed in its submission.

The new plan would see all auctions would be done with PayPal or Cash on Delivery, meaning that you could not use credit cards, direct debit, cheques and money transfer. Also, since PayPal is owned by eBay, it is seen as double dipping, as one commenter on the TECHGEEK site said.

We want to hear your response on the plans on eBay - go to the Reawaken Media/TECHGEEK forums at http://forums.reawaken.info or comment below.

CBS Corporation has finally finished their acquisition of CNET, bringing CNET.com, ZDNet, BNET, TechRepublic, GameSpot, GameFAQs, TV.com, Movietome, Chow, MP3.com, Search.com, Metacritic, UrbanBaby, MySimon and all of its international websites to the leadership of CBS Interactive.

CBS Interactive currently holds CBSNews.com, CBSSports.com, Last.fm, among other things - and has two video shows: WallStrip and Moblogic.

The acquisition, worth $1.8 billion, represented a 44.6% premium on May 16’s announcement. This is a huge coup for CBS, and given how many sites will be added to CBS Interactive - that’s a lot of websites, especially when you count all of the sites in Europe and Asia alone.

TechCrunch has some letters from Quincy Smith and Neil Ashe, who is now CBS Interactive President.

But, if you don’t like the acquisition - do come over here and read all of our news from now on.

I’ve had reports from terence, that optus has had a little screw up in their system. Look at the attached image, boy hasn’t terence used alot of offpeak!

In my opinion, TYPICAL OPTUS!

Time of screw up: 12:43AM.

ABC’s Summer Heights High brings ABC in line with the BBC. (Terence Huynh/Reawaken Media)

Apple has just released something that has made us very happy here at TECHGEEK - TV Shows on iTunes. This long awaited feature brings Australia in line with the US and the UK with television show downloads.

The current lineup features US shows from ABC Studios and Disney Channel, both owned by Disney - which Steve Jobs has a Board of Directors seat; and Viacom. Australian content includes ABC and the Nine Network.

To me, this now brings ABC almost near to the standards to what its British counterpart, the BBC, has done online. ABC now allows you to watch video, even archived material on some shows, from 2005. It has published its news videos in Flash - a common format, and has now started a ‘IPTV’ service - which is kinda crap, but still good.

But also, this sees something weird. The ABC offers many of its shows for free on its website in podcast form - like Summer Heights High in 2007. As well, ABC Studios mainly have Seven broadcasting their programs, meaning that Apple might delay it until the entire season has been screened or release it early, bringing the wrath of Seven.

There is also another flaw. All ISPs, excluding iiNet which allows unlimited downloads on iTunes content, may need to readjust their plans or you will need to move to a bigger plan or another ISP as the files are around 500MB per file. This means you could be wasting 7GB for just one season of Lost, which contains 14 episodes.

Nine’s offering includes Sea Patrol and the failed series Canal Road, while ABC’s offerings include its popular shows: The Chaser’s War on Everything and Summer Heights High; with other shows like Foreign Correspondent.

The only other channels I want on iTunes are Foxtel, Seven, Ten and the BBC. The BBC for Doctor Who, Ten for Good News Week (though it’s avaliable in Podcast), Seven for All Saints and City Homicide and Foxtel because of its ‘Showcase’ content. What channels/studios do want to be on iTunes?

All episodes are priced $2.99, and are most likely to be encoded in the same DRM which Apple uses on its TV shows sold in the US.

The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, who regulates all domain names like .net and .com, is expected to vote on the new names after it opened its annual general meeting on Monday in Paris.

Users will be able to get domains like .love, .paris or .bank. This will see it being one of the largest shakeups on the internet if it is approved. This move is due to allow more names to be registered as .com and .net are more likely to have that name taken (like techgeek.com!)

Many of the domains are specifically targeted to different regions or businesses. While .com and .net are specifically used for companies and networks, they have become the two most popular domain names. Region-specific domains like .asia and .eu have been recently approved after backing by the regions.

More than 1,300 delegates from 130 countries will vote on the new proposal.

Joining the long list of executives leaving Yahoo (TechCrunch has a list of the executives, too long to count); both the founders of Flickr and Del.icio.us have left their posts at Yahoo.

Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Flake, the husband-and-wife founders of Flickr, and Joshua Schachter, the founder of Del.icio.us, have all resigned from their posts. Both of their companies were aquired in 2005 by Yahoo - both very popular sites on Yahoo’s network of sites.

While Butterfield left on June 13, his wife Flake will leave on July 12. Schachter, speaking to the Michael Arrington, has said that his decision was due to the recent news from Yahoo.

Yahoo has been gaining bad press in recent months, due to its acqusition by Microsoft and its new non-exclusive search advertising deal with Google. As well, as mentioned, many executives have left the company - with many resigning since the start of 2007. Jerry Yang started his CEO position in June 2007.

Reddit has made a big announcement today, as of Thursday (or Wednesday in America) the site’s code is open source, under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL).

The social news site, acquired by Conde Nast in 2006, will allow users work on the site themselves, than petitioning for changes. It now counts 4.5 unique visitors monthly, and though smaller than Digg and Yahoo’s Buzz, it has grown 1,000 percent since Conde Nast bought the site and merged it with its Wired Digitial operations.

However, not all will be released under CPAL. The codes that will remain locked away are related to preventing cheating, ‘gaming’ the system and fighting spam. However, the algorithm that chooses which stories be on the front page will be made to the public.

CPAL is also the same license that Facebook used when it open sourced its platform.

The Mozilla Foundation will offer the next version of Firefox 3 at 10am PDT today. But, with the release of the latest version comes a challenge - a world record attempt.

Mozilla is trying to set a record for the most downloads over a 24 hour period. There is no specific amount, but they would like to achieve five million on the first day - according to the BBC.

Comparing it with the last release, Firefox 2.0 registered 1.6 million on its first day.

You can download it from here.

TECHGEEK will review the full, final version of Firefox 3 soon …

Internode and iiNet have spoken out and said that they are against the new Government’s plan for an ISP-level filtering initiative, saying that it could cripple our high-speed internet access.

Mandatory filtering was one of Kevin Rudd’s election promises and is set to move to an ISP level to remove "inappropriate content" from our browser. These are currently being trialled by ACMA (Australian Communication and Media Authority).

ACMA is expected to file its report with the minister Senator Stephen Conroy by the end of this month, after it pledged to fund a $125.8 million subsidy for ISPs to install the filtering equipment.

However, it has been panned by many critics - with security experts saying it should block malware than inappropriate content, one of the suggestions backed by Internode.

BigPond, however, is taking a different stance on the issue and is saying it will support the move. A spokesperson for the ISP said that ISP-level filtering is "part of the overall solution of reducing families’ exposure to online risks with education and safe online behaviour being as equally important".

Blitz Telecom, the owners of G-Node and Koala Telecom, is being reported to be in financial trouble and has been placed in administration earlier this month.

Director Umut Omer said in the Whirlpool forums that its primary investor recently withdrew his support and that he is working to "propose a Deed of Company Arrangement that would see creditors paid and the company come out of receivership".

He also admitted that some staff have been terminated during the week, but also said that he didn’t expect any changes in the service provided. He also attempted to reassure users, saying that the service will not interrupted.

Those who were with Koala Telecom, before Blitz bought them out of receivership, was having troubles last year.