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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As frightningly evil... by CustomDesigned · 2008-11-20 03:20 · Score: 1, Troll

as this corporate behavior is, all you scumbags violating copyright to save a buck provided the excuse. (Although I must admit, I've never actually observed copyright violations via internet - the teens around here make "mix" CDs of their favorite tracks to give to their friends, but don't share stuff online.)
Re:Criminal intent? by jedidiah · 2008-11-20 04:17 · Score: 0, Troll

Keep on telling yourself that...
Perhaps you're fortunate to not "look like a perp".

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A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.