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Australia's Federal Court has refused an application from the makers of the movie Dallas Buyers Club which would have forced ISPs to hand over the details of customers who illegally downloaded the film.
The decision is a huge win for a group of ISPs—iiNet, Internode, Adam Internet, Dodo, Wideband and Amnet Broadband—which fought the application against the owners of the Oscar award-winning film, Dallas Buyers Club LLC.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @10:23AM
Uploaders are competitors who are undercutting the asking price by giving product away for free. Downloaders are not doing anything wrong by obtaining the product at the prevailing market value of zero.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @02:35PM
The reason they weren't more interested in the uploaders is because they were attempting to do a decade old RIAA/MPAA trick of getting the names and addresses of everyone on the torrent then sending them all an extortion letter for a X dollar "settlement" fee. The judge saw the letter they were planning on sending to the individuals (part of the requirement) and saw through the plot immediately. IE: He realized it wasn't to catch infringement, it was to blackmail individuals. Something the US courts should have done a decade ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @06:35PM
Uploaders are competitors who are undercutting the asking price by giving product away for free.
That's precisely what they are: Competitors. In our crony capitalist society, competition is considered bad. Instead of attempting to find a new viable business model, they would rather resort to using government force to protect their current one. Nevermind that, in this case, that necessarily involves censorship and violating freedom of speech.