In a groundbreaking result, IINET have won their court case against the media alliance (involving such companies as Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox and Disney, as well as the Seven Network.) The world's nerds have been watching this case for the past two years and it may well set precedents for future actions. The studios argued that iiNet should have taken "reasonable steps" to act on infringement notices that contained internet addresses of computers using the ISP's service to allegedly share illegal movies and music on peer-to-peer file networks.
And it was the first Australian Trial to be
covered by twitter.. If you care about that sort of thing.
Australia's Whirlpool's forum has been going off tap about the news...
Read the full story here... Sydney Morning Herald
and
here's a summery of event's from ZDNet.com.au in a fancy graphical form.
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