Australia's Internet Industry has given its support to local Internet Service Provider (ISP) iiNet in its ongoing copyright dispute with several of the world's most influential media organizations, it has been announced.
It was announced last week that Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Disney Enterprises, Inc. and the Seven Network had filed legal action against iiNet after they concluded that the ISP had infringed copyright rules by failing to take reasonable steps (including enforcing its own terms and conditions) to prevent known unauthorized use of copies of the companies’ films and TV programs by customers of the iiNet network.
The implementation of legal action by these companies is aimed at preventing Australian individuals with high-speed internet connections from illegally obtaining and sharing these digital productions, with the view to permanently disconnect known offenders who repeatedly infringe copyright rules.
However, senior representatives of the country's internet industry have stepped up to give support to iiNet after highlighting the difficulties ISPs face in tackling copyright crimes.
According to Peter Coroneos, the Chief Executive of the country's Internet Industry Association (IIA), the enforcement of copyright rules is, and always has been, the responsibility of the organization targeted by infringement, and not that of the ISP. In this sense, the IIA has stressed that iiNet should not be accountable for the illegal misconduct of the digital media in question, as it is has not broken any of the rules it upholds in providing a service to internet users.
Coroneos's view is also shared by that of the Associate Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), Kimberlee Weatherall, who also believes that it is the job of the film and TV industry to target individuals breaching copyright rules.
The case of iiNet is similar to that of the Kazaa file sharing service, which was made to pay over USD100m in damages after being found guilty of several breaches of copyright.
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