iiNet win. Hollywood fail. Again.
p2pnet view Movies:- Hollywood did its level best to shanghai Australian ISP iiNet, blowing millions of dollars on lost lawsuits and PR spin.
But now the studios have suffered another ignominious fail.
For the second time, the Australian federal court has ruled iiNet can’t be held liable for for something its customers might, or might not, have done.
“Justice Dennis Cowdroy’s landmark February 2010 ruling was upheld in which he dismissed allegations by Hollywood studios that Perth ISP iiNet had authorised its customers to infringe copyright online”, says Australian IT.
Now the company wants bygones to be bygones, imparting a little spin of its own.
“While fighting iiNet in the courts, many of these movie studios have signed content deals with us
through our television service, fetchtv”, says iiNet CEO Michael Malone (right) in a company statement.
“The success of fetchtv was a clear and successful demonstration of the benefits of these partnerships and Australians’ strong desire to access affordable legitimate content.”
(Cheers, Filip and Tom)
Australian IT – AFACT online copyright appeal against iiNet dismissed, February 24, 2011
company statement – iiNet again welcomes Federal Court Judgment, February 24, 2011
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation ~ Marshall McLuhan
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February 24th, 2011 at 11:08 am
1 of the 3 judges sided with AFACT, so the verdict wasn’t unanimous. I got a feeling they will appeal to the High Court. So far IINET has spent $6.5 million in legal fees.
February 24th, 2011 at 11:25 am
how many homeless ppl can you feed with 6.5 million?
February 24th, 2011 at 11:43 am
@^^^^ a shit load could be fed on that!
February 24th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
And hopefully AFUCT will pay back every cent of it.
February 24th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
AFact, after it’s first loss were not happy about paying costs, said they should not have too and went to court to avoid them. i dont know the outcome but I suspect they lost.