Aussie Movie & TV Industry Sues ISP for Allowing P2P Piracy

Accuses iiNet of being actively involved in copyright infringement itself for refusing to prevent its customers from being able to engage in illegal file-sharing on its network. ISPs in the "land down under" can add copyright infringement by file-sharing customers to the long list of headaches that includes govt plans for mandatory content filtering. For today, seven leading movie studios and a TV network filed a legal action against iiNet, a major Australian ISP, accusing it of copyright infringement for failing to take reasonable steps to prevent iilegal file-sharing by customers on its network. The action was filed by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Disney Enterprises, Inc. and the Seven Network.

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