ISP cleared of copyright infringement
Friday, February 5th, 2010In the first case of its kind, an Australian court has ruled that an internet service provider cannot be responsible for illegal downloading.
iiNet, Australia’s third largest ISP, was taken to court by a group of 34 movie production houses.
The group included the Australian divisions of Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox.
They claimed that iiNet was guilty of copyright infringement for not preventing illegal downloads of films.
The movie group hired investigators to track the numbers of iiNet customers using BitTorrents to illegally download movies.
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