iiTrial: Judges call for "decision tree" in iiNet-AFACT case

By Ry Crozier on Aug 6, 2010 12:37 AM
Filed under Telco/ISP

Appeal Day 4: Making sense of a mountain of legal arguments.

The full bench of the Federal Court has requested iiNet and the film studios put together a detailed "decision tree" to help it work through a mountain of evidence and legal arguments delivered in Court this week.

Justice Arthur Emmett requested the 'tree' document be submitted by the parties after an intense four days of hearings in the studios' appeal of the copyright case against ISP iiNet.

The film industry wants to make ISPs responsible for the actions of users on their networks.

"We'll now take some time," Justice Emmett said in closing remarks.

"We'll wait until we see [a folder of] re-organised materials [to be supplied by iiNet's counsel] and also a decision tree.

"What I have in mind is a fairly detailed document. It would also be helpful to have a reference to submissions where each of those particular issues [in the tree] was dealt with - bearing in mind that we probably won't be writing [our decision] this week."

Justice Emmett stood the matter over for a fortnight to allow the parties to prepare the decision tree document.

iiTrial: Judges call for "decision tree" in iiNet-AFACT case

2 comments in this discussion

"You can susped user accounts you can even block them but it'll never stop someone getting a copy of something for free, or even paying a little bit for a pirated copy. Because most people who ..."

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Comments: 2

Willtry

Aug 6, 2010 2:37 PM

Quote " The film industry wants to make ISPs responsible for the actions of users on their networks." I feel that if this statement to be correct it should be first implemented in the US first as this is where the action is from. Or is this another case of The US waving a big stick saying do as i say not as i do.

zag

Aug 8, 2010 10:40 AM

You can susped user accounts you can even block them but it'll never stop someone getting a copy of something for free, or even paying a little bit for a pirated copy.

Because most people who pirate can't afford the stuff anyway, like kids wanting 60 music albums a week, that'd be around $1,800+ a week.

Those who actually want the stuff and also have the cash will generally just buy it, but again if they don't want to buy it well it'll never become a sale.

The studio's real problem is their buying market is shrinking.

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