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Hollywood Lawsuit Against ISP for Allowing Piracy to be Heard Tomorrow

By DrewWilson

The case where Hollywood is suing an Internet Service Provider for not deterring piracy is starting up tomorrow in court. We have been following the story where Hollywood is suing an ISP for allowing piracy to occur on their networks and today marks the final day before the battle in court. It's already well known that detection and filtering of file-sharing traffic is impractical and impossible by any reasonable measure thanks to an in depth analysis from two seperate studies in different countries, but that doesn't seem to be stopping the major movie studios from basically demanding the impossible. The ISP in question already offered to enrol in the program to prove how flawed it is. It's a case that seems to be echoing lobbying papers made by the MPAA in the United States.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).