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Legal Group Says Unlimited Broadband Promotes Piracy

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-to-mention-unrestrained-tweeting dept.

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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  1. I just use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    aapt-get.

    aapt-get remove afact

    aapt-get install mapiratinboots

  2. Oh, just piracy? by Jack9 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    --

    Often wrong but never in doubt.
    I am Jack9.
    Everyone knows me.
  3. What about Interstate Highways? by meerling · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They make it much easier, faster, and cheaper to smuggle goods and other illegal activities across state lines.
    Obviously they were made to promote such illegal activities...

    (yes, that's sarcasm, and so is this...)

    >^_^<

    1. Re:What about Interstate Highways? by Korin43 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Unlimited downloads of music, movies and games hardly implies copyright infringement. Examples: iTunes, last.fm, Microsoft's music store, Hulu, flash games, Steam...

  4. Frivolous lawsuit filer should pay defendant costs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    First shoot all the lawyers.

    Then shoot all the lawyers AGAIN!