Disney, Viacom Lose Bid to Hold Internet Provider Liable For Users’ Piracy

“Walt Disney Co. and Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures are among
Hollywood’s biggest movie studios that lost a piracy lawsuit in
Australia as an appeals court upheld a ruling that a local internet
provider wasn’t responsible for customers illegally downloading
films.

“The Federal Court of Australia Full Court, in a two-one
decision, today upheld Judge Dennis Cowdroy’s Feb. 4, 2010, verdict
that vindicated iiNet Ltd. The studios can appeal the ruling to the
country’s High Court and a notice must be filed within 28 days,
unless an extension is sought.”

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