{"id":361897,"date":"2010-02-25T07:53:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100225\/0351288306.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-25T07:53:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:53:21","slug":"and-of-course-afact-appeals-iinet-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361897","title":{"rendered":"And Of Course: AFACT Appeals iiNet Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a huge surprise, but down in Australia, AFACT, a group representing the major movie studios, which had already <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/anti-piracy-group-loses-in-court-doesnt-want-to-pay-costs-100222\/\" >fought<\/a> having to pay iiNet&#8217;s legal fees after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100203\/1516058028.shtml\">getting trounced<\/a> in court, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/business\/appeal-lodged-in-iinet-copyright-case\/story-e6frfm1i-1225834284298\" >appealing the ruling itself<\/a>.  You had to figure this would happen.  The studios weren&#8217;t going to go down without a fight.  The main part of the appeal is AFACT claiming that iiNet somehow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/News\/168136,revealed-copyright-101-challenge-to-iinet-victory.aspx\">authorized copyright infringement<\/a> by not stopping infringement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8220;The court found large scale copyright infringements, that iiNet knew they were occurring, that iiNet had the contractual and technical capacity to stop them and iiNet did nothing about them.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But that actually ignores both reality and what the ruling said.  What it found was that, indeed, large scale infringement was occurring, but that it was <i>impossible<\/i> for iiNet to be an effective copyright cop since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100204\/0103238038.shtml\">copyright infringement was something for the court to decide<\/a>, not for some ISP to just guess.  Either way, this case won&#8217;t be over for quite some time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100225\/0351288306.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100225\/0351288306.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100225\/0351288306&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=b12b17e1ed3fbb2ea0b58a342f524d4b&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=b12b17e1ed3fbb2ea0b58a342f524d4b&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=l2fGoGcCIAY:MbjF3fItc2I:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=l2fGoGcCIAY:MbjF3fItc2I:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=l2fGoGcCIAY:MbjF3fItc2I:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/l2fGoGcCIAY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a huge surprise, but down in Australia, AFACT, a group representing the major movie studios, which had already fought having to pay iiNet&#8217;s legal fees after getting trounced in court, is appealing the ruling itself. You had to figure this would happen. The studios weren&#8217;t going to go down without a fight. 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