Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed

Xiroth writes "More details are beginning to come out about the lawsuit launched by film studios in Australia. According to law experts familiar with the case, the studios seek to force the ISPs to become 'police, judge, and executioner,' effectively giving the studios the legal clout to switch off ISP customers' internet connection at will. Apparently the ISP iiNet is the unlucky victim for the test case as, unlike other ISPs, they refused to pass on infringement notices to their customers."

Comments

Re:WTF is wrong with Australia these days?

[Anonymous Coward]

what would you have them do? Australia is full of criminals, and these are reasonable actions to keep them corralled. A bunch of people walking around with bad attitudes, large knives, and strange accents talking about barbies and mates and dingos. I'm just glad they are a continent unto themselves.

Re:To iiNet Customers

[GenP]

...millions of copies of Linus...

When did he upload?!

Re:Oz?

[Chuck Chunder]

No

Re:Because they're fighting back.

[boyko.at.netqos]

Is there anything we can do to play hardball with the record companies at this point? I'm tired of simply sitting down and not buying their music and supporting companies and organizations which oppose them with periodic donations.

I'd propose a CD burning party, but first of all, it's a little too "third reich" for me to be totally comfortable with, and second, half the people would show up with laptops and blank discs.