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AU Legal Group Says ISP Allowed 100K Illegal Downloads

In Australia, a court wrapped up day one of what promises to be a 4-week trial of media interests against ISP iiNet. Reader bennyboy64 writes "iTnews reports that Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft investigators claim to have recorded almost 100,000 instances of Australian internet service provider iiNet users making available online unauthorized copies of films and TV programs, lawyers for the film industry said in the Federal Court in Sydney today. The lawyers for the film industry claimed iiNet had done 'nothing' to discourage copyright infringement on its network. iTnews also has a background piece on the case, with a Flash-y graph."

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  1. I know this is slashdot, but... by TheVelvetFlamebait · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WTF is with this headline?

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    You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
  2. Re:How far does the liability go? by Keeper+Of+Keys · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh wait, isn't that bascially what the RIAA has been doing?

    With the help of the Pirate Bay, since the Pirate Bay likes to insert a sample of random ip addresses into its tracker/logs.

    [Citation needed]

  3. Re:Pax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft" = JEWS.

    We can't have Jews doing manual labour! Oy vey! Haven't vee suffered enough!

    They are, after all, "God's chosen people", (according to themselves), and we are their 'cattle'...

    My eye! If this sort of illegal copying continues, the poor, hard done by, "powerless" Jews will have to do the jobs that their 'CATTLE' do, won't they! Like building houses, mending roads, picking crops, and ve can't have that! Haven't the poor Jews suffered enough?

    Remember the holocaust! Otherwise, the Jews will lose their power over all of humanity...