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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by WizardFusion on Friday August 14 2015, @10:46AM
From what I remember reading in other stories and blogs about iiNet, they are the good guys always pushing back against government overreach and RIAA (and it's local affiliates).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @10:50AM
Well now that they have built up a good reputation on the blogs, nobody will expect them to turn evil.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Myfyr on Friday August 14 2015, @11:01AM
That was them. They've been bought out now though, so the days of fighting the good fight just because are almost certainly over. They'll probably still fight these ones though, since it's good PR and Australia still has some ISP competition.