AU Legal Group Says ISP Allowed 100K Illegal Downloads

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 6, 2009 @08:48PM from the uncommon-carrier dept.

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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Re:OMG they did nothing by cjfs · 2009-10-06 21:27 · Score: 0, Troll

The film industry's lawyers also provided a detailed technical explanation of the BitTorrent system and a demonstration of its technical expert Nigel Carson accessing a torrented file.
If it takes a "technical expert" to download a file it can't be that widespread, right?
Alternatively, maybe iiNet is powerless to stop these "technical expert" hackers.