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12 April 2015

Australia: Net Piracy and Metadata

By Helen Clark
April 10, 2015

There’s always a new story about the internet in Australia, a G20 nation with a ranking of 44th in terms of speed, worldwide. Thailand is 28. Right now, the story is piracy, streaming services and metadata. They are, in fact, all issues in their own right but importantly connected.

Fist off, on Tuesday the makers of Dallas Buyers Club successfully petitioned Australia’s Federal Court to compel ISPs such as iiNet to hand over details of customers who allegedly illegally downloaded the film. In what has generally been called a “landmark” decision against piracy Justice Nye Perram ruled in favor of the studio and ruled that the ISPs must identify those who shared the film. There are some 4,726 names.

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