Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday November 20, 2008 @03:10AM from the you-can't-make-this-up dept.

Da Massive writes "Leading Hollywood film studios Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Disney Enterprises are suing Australia's second largest ISP, iiNet, saying it's complicit in the infringement of their copyrighted material. According to a statement of claim, 'the ISP knows that there are a large number of customers who are engaging in continuing infringements of copyright by using BitTorrent file sharing technology.'"

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Re:Criminal intent? by CRCulver · 2008-11-20 03:15 · Score: 1, Flamebait

It's not that simple. There is a well-established non-violent market for hammers. For Bittorrent, use of the technology to do legal things like download Linux ISOs is statistically negligible. It's a technology that for most people is identified with getting copyright films, music and e-books for free. Now, I download stuff I watch to listen to or watch frequently, but I don't think this argument against the media companies works.