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Australia's Federal Court Backs ISPs in Row over Illegal Downloads

posted by LaminatorX on Friday August 14 2015, @09:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the Down-Under-Loads dept.

NoMaster writes:

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, @06:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @06:35PM (#222941)

    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.