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In AU, Film Studios Issue Ultimatum To ISPs
bennyboy64 writes "The Australian court case between the film industry and ISP iiNet drew to a close yesterday after the film studios issued an ultimatum: Take copyright responsibilities seriously or leave the industry. 'Businesses such as ISPs want to enjoy the benefit of being able to make money out of the provision of Internet service facilities and they enjoy that benefit. But it carries with it a responsibility,' said Tony Bannon SC, the film industry's lawyer. 'They provide a facility that is able to be used for copyright infringement purposes. If they don't like having to deal with copyright notices then they should get out of the business.' iTnews has done a short one minute interview with iiNet's CEO Michael Malone as he left the court on the final day. Also on the final day, the judge dismissed the Internet Industry Association's involvement in the case."
ISP's to FILM INDUSTRY: FUCK OFF! We build the cars, we don't drive them. Its not our job to police the roads. Go find a cop. Its not our business model that is failing. We aren't stealing anything from you, and we are tired of you wasting our time. If your industry is dying, then go and die already, and be done with it. If you don't stop bugging us, we will encourage your untimely demise, just to be rid of you quicker! Once again, and very politely, FUCK OFF!
These corporates which run the big movie studios have no creative cells between any of them. They've run out of ideas and are now churning out old remakes, as well as copying ideas from more talented directors and producers out there (How many disaster/war/tween movies do we want anyway?!?).
Instead of working on ideas and business models to facilitate new technology and new media, they continually insist on suing customers, vaguely related industries (The earlier VCR comment is valid, just replace with Blueray)
Actually, it carries no responsibility because ISP's are common carriers. The only thing anyone is responsible for here is studios. They need to STFU and get back to work making films. The moment these idiots became more law firm than film studio they ceased to provide anything useful to society.