http://whirlpool.net.au/news/?id=1820&show=replies The Australian film industry is suing my ISP, iiNet for "allowing" its users to bit-torrent copyrighted material. This is absolutely ridiculous, and would hopefully be thrown out of court. Follow the link to see all comments made by Australian users on this issue. Some back story (conspiracy theory): Senator Stephen Conroy (Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) wants to implement what is being called "The Great Firewall of Australia", which will mean a firewall similar to what China currently has, and in some ways, worse. iiNet is very vocal against this firewall, and has said the entire project is doomed to failure, on multiple occasions. A few weeks later, the film industry sues iiNet.
An article written by a Law professor at an Australian university on the particulars of the upcoming court case: http://www.lawfont.com/2008/11/21/the-case-against-iinet/ Introduces some copyright law relating to the actual case, and some of the consequences of what would happen to Australian broadband should AFACT win the court case. This might create a precedent worldwide for ISPs around the world to be sued for "allowing" bit-torrent. Especially for the U.S., due to the Free Trade Agreement. Anyone have any thoughts on an ISP being sued for "allowing" bit-torrents?
Personally I think the ISP's should counter sue the studios for people putting on all their trash films and eating up the bandwidth, LOL...
