Legal Group Says Unlimited Broadband Promotes Piracy

bennyboy64 writes "Unlimited broadband plans are all too familiar in many countries; in Australia they're scarce. One ISP offering such a plan between the hours of 8pm and 8am, AAPT, is being looked at as a matter of high interest by a legal group representing the interests of the global film industry, AFACT (the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft). It said AAPT was encouraging users to download copyrighted material. AAPT's advertising states: 'If you want unlimited music, unlimited games and unlimited movies — get unlimited off-peak broadband downloads from AAPT.' AFACT executive director Adrianne Pecotic said: 'In the context of the AAPT promotion, we have a concern that it could be misconstrued to promote illegal downloads and that's something that we'd like clarified.' AFACT is currently involved in what will be a landmark court case with Australian ISP iiNet. It recently claimed in court proceedings that there was a link between iiNet upgrading the service plans of heavy Internet users and the proliferation of film piracy."

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I just use

[Anonymous Coward]

aapt-get.

aapt-get remove afact

aapt-get install mapiratinboots

Oh, just piracy?

[Jack9]

Also commerce and terrorism and scientific research and banking and hacking and collective processing and ....

Frivolous lawsuit filer should pay defendant costs

[Anonymous Coward]

First shoot all the lawyers.

Then shoot all the lawyers AGAIN!

So does breathing

[syousef]

Quick. Cut off all the oxygen. It's a known fact that all Internet Pirates. That's a documented 100% breathe oxygen. We must eliminate the oxygen NOW! Otherwise we encourage piracy. Don't even get me started on Water. Water has been linked not only to piracy but also to terrorism. We must cut off the supply at the taps!

Re:Frivolous lawsuit filer should pay defendant co

[sakdoctor]

Do what you want, âcause a lawyer is free,
YOU ARE A LAWYER!

Re:Frivolous lawsuit filer should pay defendant co

[palegray.net]

And fill the hole up.

With more lawyers? I can see it now...

"It's lawyers, all the way down."

In other words, welcome to Hell.

I have far more sinister proof

[SmallFurryCreature]

Do you know who is REALLY to blame for all those illegal downloads that help fund terrorism?

The movie industry. Without any regard to their fellow man and society they keep on producing movie after movie drawing their poor victims into a downwards spiral of constantly try to download the latest of their poison.

Why, I say that if we ban the movie industry (and really, only a communist could be against that) then the act of pirating movie will be wiped of the face of the earth and our youngsters will be saved from this destructive path the pinko's and homosexuals from hollywood have set them on.

Save a child, kill a hollywood producer.

I dare you to find a single flaw in my resoning. No movies, no piracy.