Can The Creative Industry Ever Mesh With The Pirates? 
iiNet On AFACT, Copyright And Why Consumers Need A Say 
High Court Dismisses AFACT Appeal 
AFACT Still Pressuring Aussie ISPs To Be Copyright Cops 
iiNet Paper Says Downloaders Punished Worse Than Speeding Drivers 
ISPs Not Responsible For Bittorrent Piracy - iiNet Wins Court Case 
AFACT’s loss in the high court on Friday brought to an end the current legal woes for iiNet, but it’s far from the end of the story. In the press conference held afterwards, iiNet’s Michael Malone repeatedly pressed home the point that a lot of the problems would go away if Australian content delivery mechanisms were better. I agree with him, but I’m left pondering if that won’t bring with it a whole new host of problems.
Everything that went down in today’s final court decision in the iiNet/AFACT piracy battle.
High Court Dismisses AFACT Appeal Highlights from the judgement and comments from interested parties. iiNet On AFACT, Copyright And Why Consumers Need A Say iiNet’s responses, live from its conference call. Why AFACT’s Piracy Stance Remains Hopeless AFACT really needs to get its act together if it wants to remain relevant. OK, now back to your magnet links.
iiNet has just concluded its conference call following its victory over AFACT in the High Court this morning. Amongst the topics discussed were the costs of legal action, where the industry goes to from here and why consumers should be part of the overall process for any kind of infringement framework.
AFACT was never going to lie down quietly over its two consecutive court losses to iiNet over Internet piracy , and the result has just been handed down for its High Court appeal; AFACT’s appeal has been dismissed. Update: AFACT is now calling on the Government to take up the copyright fight.
ABC’s The Slap, the TV mini-series based on Christos Tsiolkas’s novel of the same name, has garnered itself a small international audience. Just not small enough to fly under the radar of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT); AFACT has gone after a number of websites offering the show for download and forced them to shut down.
The latest batch of leaked diplomatic cables covers a wide swathe of diplomatic topics. What you probably wouldn’t expect to find in there are cables showing that the US government is concerned about the NBN leading to more widespread piracy, as well as the MPAA being a prime mover behind the AFACT/iiNet copyright case.
Here we go again. Now that three of the biggest US telcos have signed up to the six-strikes-and-you’re-out rule, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (the Hollywood stooges who lost in court against iiNet) are demanding that Aussie ISPs start negotiating for tougher penalties against pirates. They’ve given local ISPs, including Telstra, until the end of today to respond…or else.
Despite the fact that the United Nations came out last week announcing that internet access is a basic human right, the Australian government has decided to disagree, telling Asher Moses over at the Sydney Morning Herald that there’s no basis in international law that says declining internet access is violating an individual’s right to free speech.
Considering how much of their rhetoric is complete and utter BS, it isn’t really surprising that AFACT has taken their second straight loss to iiNet poorly. The Australian is reporting that the anti-piracy lobby group has applied to take its case to the High Court in the hope of proving that iiNet is somehow responsible for its customers’ piracy.
Asher Moses over at the SMH has written a fantastic article dissecting the figures bandied around by anti-piracy lobby groups. Like a surgeon’s scalpel slicing through rotting flesh, Moses dismantles the industry’s arguments, labelling them as self-serving hyperbole.
