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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Telephone companies sued? by Stiletto · 2008-11-20 03:23 · Score: 0, Redundant

Next up: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon sued because criminals sometimes use mobile phones to plan and execute crimes!
Re:Worse than you think by R4nneko · 2008-11-20 11:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

Really? I didn't see that in either of the articles I have read. Would you be able to provide a link? I'd certainly be interested in reading it, and I agree that that is probably the most correct course of action.