Hollywood sues Australian ISP iiNet
p2pnet news view | MPAA News:- Hollywood’s AFACT has sued Australian ISP iiNet for unspecified damages for allegedly, “failing to stop its customers from pirating films using BitTorrent technology”.
Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Village Roadshow and Warner Bros Entertainment, “sued after iiNet ignored 18 weeks of notices identifying thousands of illegal file transfers by customers using its network, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) said in a statement from Sydney,” says the Hollywood Reporter.
iiNet chief Michael Malone said his company wasn’t aware of AFACT’s complaints, “and had forwarded them to the police,” says Australian IT.
“AFACT doesn’t want to deal with the police and has instead chosen to take this course of action,” Mr Malone said.
Chris Chard, Roadshow Entertainment managing director, “said that the suit was motivated by a desire to stop piracy from hurting the studios in everything from film production to exhibition to home entertainment,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
With the latter in mind, at a recent movie industry pep talk in the UK, the MPAA’s FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) made it clear Hollywood is including borrowed and viewed movies and music in its anti-piracy statistics.
That figure, “has gone up dramatically,” FACT’s Eddy Leviten said during Stopping Digital piracy: Strategy and Tactics, a talk it organised together with Warner Brothers Entertainment, Europe.
“We can safely say that people in the UK are engaging in piracy more, much more, than they were previously,” he said, also pointing out FACT will be, “looking a lot more at streaming when we do the research for next year” because, “Certainly, the proliferation of those sites has caused us anguish.”
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Hollywood Reporter - Studios sue iiNet for piracy in Oz, November 19, 2008
Australian IT - Film industry sues iiNet, November 20, 2008
movie industry pep talk - FACT: a third of all Britons are online pirates, November 14, 2008
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November 20th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
The Masses use YouTube and the PirateBay everyday
I dontt think they will be very happy he the Industy wanted to take down YouTube because they host a 30 second clip of a feature film
I DONT have to remind you what happened to MediaDefnder
November 20th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
and I think its ironic that MediaDefender cant Defend Media their Servers or Email Accounts
I think that if a band set up a BT tracker with the[band]bay.com it would overload in the first couple hours and the ads would generate so much royalties
November 20th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
OMG WOW,
“With the latter in mind, at a recent movie industry pep talk in the UK, the MPAA’s FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) made it clear Hollywood is including borrowed and viewed movies and music in its anti-piracy statistics.”
- did anyone else notice this, how exactly do you intend on finding stats on how many people borrow movies, music, etc? I didnt know that making up stats was acceptible. Did they bother checking that Canada, Australia, and the UK copyright act and see that even though MIPAA may want you to think that borrowing a movie is piracy, doesnt make it true.
- Cry Wolf Much? - individuals and companies have rights to protect what they own. But when are these groups going to stop trying to sue 13year olds for sharing music? Enforce the laws that are valid in the countries you sell your product.
I noticed that you can pay more for new movies that come with a digital copy here in canada while our copyright act allows for -FairUse so you dont actually need that.
- I am tired of purchasing music and not being able to play it on my computer because the options is, if you want to use it on the computer, it has to use the custom program provided (which you may not find to be a big deal, but that means some stereos that are connected to PCs will only be able to output to 2 speakers instead of the actual amount you have =P. However in Canada you are allowed to download songs (as the protection groups decided that every blank CD we buy, money is given to the music industry, so that backfired on them now didnt it?)
- Make Movies and Music affordible on mass, and it will not be cost efficient to pirate anything? you would make more money in the long run sell DVDs for 5$ at most, more people would buy it and it wouldnt be worth the time to pirate anything.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
and one more thing
The Industry(From an article on ChillingEffects) tried to stop their own artists, guitarists from Sharing
The Internet is an Opportunity
and copyright laws should be ripped up
Is the PirateBay in the Guinness Book of Records? Jon?
November 20th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
ya make carryingthat external hard drive to your buddies house worse crime hten a pound a heroin.
thats the next step
seriously how much shit are we gonna take befor esomeone gets up and literally starts punching actors/musicans out
December 6th, 2008 at 8:32 am
It’s ironic how the people who manage channel 7 are off in hot pursuit of IInet given that:
The people hwo manage channel 7 -
Work in collusion with “child psychologists” to Deliberately target children - to pressure parents to buy them things; without which they will not be whole;
And they keep them glued to the screen, eating junk food, and buying what ever they are told too; while the people who manage channel 7 profit from raising crop after crop of feel good addicted fat and diseased consumers.
The people who manage channel 7 profit psychologically targeting peope to make them sick, and then they blame the government.
The people who manage channel 7 also sensationalise and trivialise matters of importance, and turn the act of getting things done into point scoring and popularity contests - playing enemies and allies mind games.
The people who manage channel 7 also promote car racing and the sales of gas guzzling “keeping up with the Jones junk” for a buck - even as we start to tumble into the precipice of no return….
They train people to medicate themselves into their graves with sex, food, drugs and gossip; keeping them glued to the screens - in order to make a buck - and then they say “Oh aren’t the people who we have shown how to do any thing for a buck bad” when we can catch them out doing what we have been doing for decades……
Lying, cheating, miseading, manipulating adn robbing people… anything for a buck.
As the SS said, “I was only following orders” - and as long as the people who manage and work for channel 7 don’t have to take personal responsibility for everything they have done - then they are no different to the nazis - and their responsibility shifting.
And in every individual in channel 7 doing everything they have done and not taking responsibility for it, and changing their ways - they are the ethical nazis of the past, today, tomorrow and the future - for all time.
If everyone had of said, “No” then there would have been no world war 2; and yet, here we are sailing through the cross roads saying “What in the hell has happened - “I made the car, I sold the car and I bought and drove the car….. - and as long as non of us have to take any person responsibility - none of us are to blame.”
Oh wait a second…. there are lots of people watching stuff without paying for it… that’s it - it’s their fault - they are keeping us out of the money loop, they are keeping us from selling them junk food and keeping them glued to the screens, telling them that if they don’t have the latest model gas guzzling car - they what will people think of them… they might think they are a loser, a failure - some one who couldn’t make it.. up to the standards we set for them as being normal..
The fat, the diseased, the cancer ridden - from eating the shit we tell them too and not getting out and exercising….
The people who manage channel 7 are the liars and thieves. They steal life and health and self esteem - and destroy the planet - all in the name of a fast buck.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Well I love freedom as much as the next guy/gal, and sure I would love everything for free…but, hey come on lets get back to the real world. Movies, Bands whatever all have producers, there job is to put up the $$$ and if they don’t well then there are no new dvd’s or cd’s.
About now a lot of people will be saying yeah but these “producers” get millions for nothing, they can afford to give stuff away. Ask yourself the question, if you invested in something and were lucky enough to get a return on that investment, would you share that with anyone on the internet…of course not.
Which ever way you look at the piracy argument you end up with the same truth “theft is theft” and if someone steals this text it is still theft. in the end I guess there would be a lot let piracy if filmmakers stopped making films..and it could come to that.
So please let’s stop calling this a moral issue, let’s stop calling it piracy (images of Johnny
Depp) lets just call it what it is THEFT.