AFACT vs iiNet - Last Week

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The AFACT vs iiNet court trial has concluded.

iiNet continued their closing statements this week to attack some of the AFACT's claims.

One of the AFACT's claims was that by offering certain legal downloads free of the bandwidth quota in their "freezone", such as iTunes content, this allowed users to "save up" bandwidth for the illegal downloads. iiNet's barrister countered this quite ridiculous claim by asking why would an user still download illegal content if they were using "freezone" quota to buy things from iTunes.

iiNet further defended their stance on investigating infringement claims, again citing the Telecommunications Act which may prohibit the use of customer data in this manner.

The Internet Industry Association to enter the case, most likely to support iiNet, but the AFACT is against this and claims that IIA's submission would not add anything new to the case. IIA's chief was cross examined on the stand and the judge eventually ruled in AFACT's favour and did not allow IIA to enter the case.

The AFACT responded to iiNet closing statements with a 400 page submission of their own. It argued that iiNet's business model may have to change and that any ISP that aren't taking copyright seriously should leave the industry.

A ruling is not expected in this case until early next year.

More:

http://www.itnews.com.au/Topic/15734...-vs-AFACT.aspx

iiNet CEO's closing thoughts:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/161488...-real-job.aspx

Previous week's updates:

Week 2: http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=92242
Week 3: http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=92364
Week 4: http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=92424
Week 5: http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=92464