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: Recording Industry vs The People

First shot fired. Big movie cartel goes after small Australian ISP; has the war against ISP's begun?

By Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman

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We have learned that the Australian counterpart of the MPAA has filed a lawsuit against a small Australian ISP, perhaps as a warm-up for a war -- by Big Music and Big Film -- against ISP's in general.

The larger Australian film studios have ganged up against iinet, an Australian ISP which holds 5% of the market.

The action was filed jointly by a group of supposed 'competitors' -- Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Disney Enterprises, Inc. and the Seven Network (free to air tv channel).

http://www.afact.org.au/pressreleases/AFACT_Media_Release_201108_iiNet.pdf

It is rumored that they went after a small ISP and would not dare to take on the might of Telstra, Australia's largest ISP, www.bigpond.com, which would be better equipped for litigation, having a large litigation team.

The court documents are available here

iinet had this (pdf) to say about it, and has a forum in which to discuss the suit.

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Full post as published by Recording Industry vs The People on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).