iinet wins landmark case against Film Companies

[zimeric]

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/166348...to-shreds.aspx
iiNet wins! Film industry's case torn to shreds

The Federal Court has dismissed the film industry's case against iiNet, finding that Australia's No.3 internet provider did not authorise copyright infringement on its network.

The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft representing the film industry, has been ordered to pay iiNet's costs.

"I find that iiNet simply can't be seen as approving infringement," said Justice Cowdroy.

Outside the courtroom, iiNet CEO Malone said the case proved that AFACT's approach had "wasted a year" and not been constructive. He intends to now attempt to negotiate with film studios and other rights holders to sell their content legitimately through the ISP's "freezone".

[Lonzy]

would have been good to buy some iinet shares just before the judgement... gone up 9.6% today!

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mind you thats only if you could aford a decent amount of shares!

[Happy]

to celebrate I'm going to download Avatar!!

[Lonzy]

hazaar! lol

They actually do a lot more then other ISPs my brother had had a number of emails from iinet telling him off for downloading stargate episode! lol