Court ruling on whether Australian ISPs must hand over customer data over movie downloads

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Court ruling on whether Australian ISPs must hand over customer data over movie downloads Anonymous 04/07/15 (Tue) 20:00:46 cab3d9 No.9426

Court ruling on whether Australian ISPs must hand over customer data over movie downloads

A LANDMARK court ruling handed down yesterday will have lasting implications for the ongoing fight against illegal downloading and file sharing.

The Federal Court Justice, Nye Perram handed down the verdict in favour of Dallas Buyers Club LLC at 2:15pm this afternoon.

The Hollywood studio had requested that iiNet (and a few other Australian ISPs) divulge the identity of customers whose IP addresses were found to have shared the film Dallas Buyers Club illegally.

The company owns the rights to the movie and identified a total of 4726 IP addresses that engaged in the illegal activity. The ruling means that the company will now be given the contact details of the offenders and will be able to pursue them directly for compensation.

The watershed verdict in favour of the rights holder will no doubt have a major impact on Australian ISPs and their customers. Many of whom can now anticipate a rude letter in the mail.

https://archive.today/qb5gU
(Court ruling on whether Australian ISPs must hand over customer data over movie downloads)
(news.com.au)

https://archive.today/3VV1N
(Dallas Buyers Club slays iiNet in landmark piracy case)
(The Sidney Morning Herald)

Anonymous 04/07/15 (Tue) 20:14:46 73d21c No.9438

I used to get mad at shit like this, but now I've come to understand that things like this is what the world really needs. People need to understand that money is the new God, and that their government will do anything to them if the people with money tell them to. Their rights will disappear in an instant if the money-men tell them to reel back their slaves. Bill Gates can just drop some cash and ruin the American education system with brainwashing trash. Bloomberg can drop some cash and make it illegal to buy too much coke or smoke cigarettes. The company that has rights to a movie about how brave the first wave of AIDS ridden faggots was can drop some cash and trample on the rights of Australians. I welcome each and every news story like this one.

Anonymous 04/07/15 (Tue) 20:15:56 d90f48 No.9439

>>9426
It is encouraging that ISPs will go to bat to protect those customer lists though.

Anonymous 04/07/15 (Tue) 20:42:01 a254f0 No.9449

>>9438
No one will care as long as they do it slowly and subtly though. Like a frog in the pot, just slowly take away people's freedoms and what they once considered dear, bit by bit, in tiny, inarguable ways. Eventually, the frog is cooked, and the people are enslaved, unable to even remember their days of freedom.

Anonymous 04/07/15 (Tue) 22:18:46 3c3b5b No.9490

Why are all the 5-eyes countries going to shit?

US
UK
CAN
AUS
NZ

Anonymous 04/07/15 (Tue) 22:43:43 3d9e5b No.9506

>>9490
Looks like they are paying homage to the hub nation: USA. The cause of the problems.

Anonymous 04/07/15 (Tue) 23:04:23 3c3b5b No.9516

>>9506
I dunno anon, UK is the most fucked up of the bunch where they throw farmers in jail for having barbed wire fences because thieves might get hurt (while the cops do NOTHING).

Anonymous 04/08/15 (Wed) 01:36:39 73d21c No.9638

>>9506
How does just stating "Well our European country is shit, but it's the USA's fault" make you any different than the niggers? I'm not even mad, I just want an answer. That's every European's reply to some heinous shit going on in their country.

Anonymous 04/08/15 (Wed) 02:15:00 540e4e No.9658

>>9638
You realize only one the five eyes in Europe right?

I agree with >>9506. The US is often at the center of things like the TPP and ACTA that serve no ones interests but a select few American multinational organizations.

Anonymous 04/08/15 (Wed) 07:57:37 1ecb65 No.9870

Fucked up precedent. Too early to tell whether consumers will roll over and take this up the arse or give a shit and speak with their money.

Anonymous 04/08/15 (Wed) 11:45:04 c0802c No.10046

>>9516
wow that is fucked.
i just want to see it turn to shit and all the people that rely on the government, social justice and lovenothate# nohate# be left high and dry

Anonymous 04/09/15 (Thu) 06:49:55 1095a9 No.10594

>>9426
nothing will come of it
no ones gonna get sued from overseas for downloading stuff

Anonymous 04/09/15 (Thu) 19:37:36 cab3d9 No.10992

>>10594
Oh really? You think that?

TTIP

Anonymous 04/09/15 (Thu) 19:58:50 24412d No.11006

>>9426
This shit happening in Ireland too

UPC ordered to take action against illegal downloaders
https://archive.today/QiNqH
The Irish Times