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sabredog · 07-14-2010, 11:31 AM

Here, AFACT (Australian Federation against Copyright Theft) filed a law suit against iiNet, which is Australia's third biggest ISP. They were perceived as a soft target. Big enough to be noticed, small enough not to mount a strong defence. Oh how they were wrong....

iiNet was accused of facilitating piracy in the form of downloading movies and TV shows. The judge awarded iiNet the case and AFACT had to pay iiNet AU four million dollars in costs. The presiding judge was really scathing towards AFACT.

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sabredog Geographically Restricted Posts: 2,630 Karma: 14933353 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Perth, Australia Device: Sony PRS-T3, Kindle Voyage, iPad Air2, Nexus7v2	Here, AFACT (Australian Federation against Copyright Theft) filed a law suit against iiNet, which is Australia's third biggest ISP. They were perceived as a soft target. Big enough to be noticed, small enough not to mount a strong defence. Oh how they were wrong.... iiNet was accused of facilitating piracy in the form of downloading movies and TV shows. The judge awarded iiNet the case and AFACT had to pay iiNet AU four million dollars in costs. The presiding judge was really scathing towards AFACT.