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Submission + - iiNet Wins In Australia! (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @08:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot previously covered the lawsuit against iiNet by the various movie studios, where they claimed that the ISP was responsible for users sharing movie content using BitTorrent on their network. Today the judge ruled that iiNet was not infringing saying that as an ISP it was obviously separate from the act of infringement. "Copyright infringement occured as result of use of BitTorrent, not the Internet," the judge said. "iiNet has no control over BitTorrent system and not responsible for BitTorrent system."

Submission + - Landmark ruling gives Australian ISPs safe harbor (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by omnibit on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @07:22PM

omnibit writes: Today, the Federal Court of Australia handed down its ruling in favor of the country's third largest ISP, iiNet. The case was backed by some of the largest media companies, including 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. They accused iiNet of approving piracy by ignoring thousands of infringement notices. Justice Cowdroy said that the "mere provision of access to internet is not the means to infringement" and "[c]opyright infringement occured as result of use of BitTorrent, not the Internet...iiNet has no control over BitTorrent system and [is] not responsible for BitTorrent system." Many internet providers had been concerned that an adverse ruling would have forced themselves to police internet traffic and comply with the demands of copyright owners without any legislative or judicial oversight.

Submission + - Giant iPad w/ 5k anti-DRM signatures sent to Jobs (defectivebydesign.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @07:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: The iPad's unprecedented use of DRM to control all capabilities of a general purpose computer is a dangerous step backward for computing and for media distribution. Today Defective by Design sent 5,000 anti-DRM signatures on a giant iPad postcard, direct to Steve Jobs. They'll send another postcard with each block of 5,000 additional signatures.

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