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Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy

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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  1. Re:As frightningly evil... by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the interest of saving time, I will go ahead and get off your lawn so you won't have to ask. Good day, sir.

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  2. Re:Why not all the +10Mbit/s ISP's in Sweden? by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

    The rest of the world will follow in due course.

    Ah, this explains how when I woke up this morning all countries had the death penalty, this afternoon there were no speed limits, and tomorrow I'm due to sacrifice my firstborn child after an edict from some leader of a tribe in south America. This automatic copying of laws from other countries is making life rather awkward.

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  3. Re:Deliver or shut up! by smoker2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tiny floating towns ? (NW of Perth is in the Indian Ocean).

  4. Negligible! by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 4, Funny

    F/OSS is negligible! Negligible, I tell you!
    Negligible! Negligible! Negligible! Negligible!

    -Steve Ballmer

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