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Despite Court Loss, Aussie Copyright Group Demands ISP Pay
Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) intends to argue in Federal Court that it shouldn’t be forced to pay the costs of those portions of the trial which iiNet lost or impeded. The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), still stinging from a dazzling loss in an Australian Federal Court after suing ISP iiNet for failing to stop copyright infringement of its customers , has now decided to try and recover those costs of the trial on issues which iiNet lost or admitted delaying the court’s findings. “AFACT put in application for costs to be re-heard and it asks for costs to be adjusted for the parts of the matter that iiNet lost,” said a spokeswoman.
Continue reading »AFACT v iiNet: Safe Harbor Protection Intact, Says iiNet
The trial continues in the copyright infringement case of AFACT – representing several Hollywood studios – and Aussie ISP iiNet (multiple links to all our earlier coverage can be found here and here and here ) The case continued in the Federal Court, with iiNet barrister Richard Cobden beginning his closing submissions. Referring to the allegations by AFACT that it detected around 97,000 instances of copyright infringement carried out by iiNet subscribers, Cobden said that there was actually only sufficient evidence to prove that a single subscriber had carried out any. That individual was the mole planted by AFACT and DtecNet to carry out deliberate ‘infringements’ on behalf of the plaintiffs.
Continue reading »AFACT v iiNet: Day 3 – Studios Promoted BitTorrent
It’s day three in the landmark case of AFACT – representing several Hollywood studios – and Aussie ISP iiNet (earlier coverage of day one and day two ). Today a very interesting and somewhat unexpected angle to iiNet’s defense was revealed by the ISP’s barrister, Richard Cobden. Earlier AFACT had insisted that iiNet did nothing to discourage its subscribers from downloading copyright material and therefore condoned their behavior, but it seems that the studios aren’t exactly blameless when it comes to encouraging the use of BitTorrent.
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