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The entertainment industry frontpiece AFACT is locked in a big legal battle with iinet, a major ISP here in Australia. As the big two ISP's were too big to take on, they chose to go at No.3

This has now gone to appeal at the High Court as iiNet has won both the initial Federal Court hearing and AFACT's appeal to the full bench of the Federal Court.

AFACT have expended tens of millions of dollars trying to nail iiNet for (their words) facilitating and encouraging piracy. iiNet refused to pass on AFACT notices or cut off internet access of alleged (by AFACT) infringer's. Their belief was that they do not act as sheriff for AFACT. Indeed iiNet did pass the infringement notices over to the Federal Police. But as the evidence was not substantive enough....

BTW, iiNET do offer legal free and paid for TV and movie streaming via their Fetch TV package.

The truth of it is that the entertainment industry find litigation far more profitable than the rubbish they currently serve increasingly savvy and annoyed customers. Why change a flawed distribution model when you can make money that way?