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Australian court rejects studios' piracy appeal
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April 20, 2012, Friday
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MOVIE and television studios today failed to convince Australia's High Court that Internet service providers should be punished for illegal video downloads made by their customers.
US and Australian studios had challenged a landmark lower court ruling that service providers cannot be held accountable for illegal downloads. The studios wanted the companies to be required to take "reasonable steps" to stop customers from downloading pirated movies.
Australia's highest court found that iiNet Ltd, Australia's third-largest Internet provider, had no direct technical power to prevent its customers from using the BitTorrent system to infringe the copyrights of the studios' films.
Customers of iiNet have downloaded thousands of movies via the Internet's leading file-sharing protocol, BitTorrent.
The case was the first for a court to rule on whether an ISP could be held liable for copyright violations by its users.
US and Australian studios had challenged a landmark lower court ruling that service providers cannot be held accountable for illegal downloads. The studios wanted the companies to be required to take "reasonable steps" to stop customers from downloading pirated movies.
Australia's highest court found that iiNet Ltd, Australia's third-largest Internet provider, had no direct technical power to prevent its customers from using the BitTorrent system to infringe the copyrights of the studios' films.
Customers of iiNet have downloaded thousands of movies via the Internet's leading file-sharing protocol, BitTorrent.
The case was the first for a court to rule on whether an ISP could be held liable for copyright violations by its users.
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