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Studios sue iiNet for piracy in Oz


November 19, 2008 Seven leading film companies sued Australian Internet service provider iiNet in federal court in Sydney on Thursday for failing to stop its customers from pirating films using BitTorrent technology. Disney, Paramount, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. sued after iiNet ignored 18 weeks of notices identifying thousands of illegal file transfers by customers using its network, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft said in a statement. Together the plaintiffs are seeking unspecified damages from iiNet, which charges its customers a fee for service, and have asked the court to consider that the piracy went on at a "commercial scale," AFACT said.

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