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From: TOS [#1]
 4 Feb 0:23
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quote: SlashDot Landmark Ruling Gives Australian ISPs Safe Harbor
omnibit writes "Today, the Federal Court of Australia handed down its ruling in favor of the country's third largest ISP, iiNet. The case was backed by some of the largest media companies, including 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. They accused iiNet of approving piracy by ignoring thousands of infringement notices. Justice Cowdroy said that the 'mere provision of access to internet is not the means to infringement' and 'copyright infringement occurred as result of use of BitTorrent, not the Internet... iiNet has no control over BitTorrent system and [is] not responsible for BitTorrent system.' Many Internet providers had been concerned that an adverse ruling would have forced themselves to police Internet traffic and comply with the demands of copyright owners without any legislative or judicial oversight."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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From: lcek48 (LECK48) [#2]
 4 Feb 4:15
To: TOS [#1] unread

Hussah!

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From: elfz0r (ELF) [#3]
 4 Feb 19:55
To: lcek48 (LECK48) [#2] 5 Feb 3:35

Yay!

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From: _ (V1M) [#4]
 7 Feb 19:22
To: TOS [#1] unread

Brace for incoming stupidity from the Australian government in response.

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From: ninety-ohm bedistor (CELERON) [#5]
 9 Feb 0:42
To: _ (V1M) [#4] 9 Feb 21:49

quote: _ (V1M)
Brace for incoming stupidity from the Australian government in response.



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From: _ (V1M) [#6]
 9 Feb 21:50
To: ninety-ohm bedistor (CELERON) [#5] 10 Feb 4:22

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