Comments on: Studios sue Australian ISP over video piracy

Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, backed by all the major networks, says iiNet has ignored requests to discipline its customers for infringing on film copyrights.

[infernalman7]

... Another step backwards for Australia on Internet!

[mmntech]

From what I've been reading lately, Australia is starting to take cues from it's northern neighbour China when it comes to dealing with the Internet. Trying to put the genie back in the bottle so to speak.

I think it's time we got a fully independent research firm to find the actual cost of piracy. So far, nobody has come up with that figure, which I would say is integral to these court cases.

[aka_tripleB]

Are they trying to enforce U.S. law in Australia? Unless the transfer at some point came to U.S. soil, the MPAA doesn't have much ground to stand on (I choose those words to specially make that pun). I don't know what the copyright laws in Australia are, but I do know that they do not have any obligation to follow U.S. copyright law. Anyone else think the MPAA and RIAA are going to start WWIII because they are blinded by greed?

[renGek]

"This is not about iiNet policing its network. There's no suggestion that they have to police their network. What we're saying, and what the law says, is that when they know that copyright infringement is occurring, they have a legal obligation to prevent it," she continued. "

So I wonder how they know this? Are australian ISPs examining packets?

[ms_vs_google]

What a surprise....not.

As usual we take another few steps back towards the dark ages because of this and previous governments pitiful to appease a few extremely wealthy and greedy companies.

If these greedy buggers put as much money into innovating delivery and availability of their content to make it cheaper and more accessible as they did towards attempts to sue ISPs and catch a few little users downloading content (that I'm sure has nowhere near the commercial impact they make out), this type of action wouldn't be necessary.