iiNet faces the music in landmark case: Via BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au .

iiNet is steadfastly refusing to admit that any of its users engaged in illegal downloading, despite forensic evidence presented by movie studios that apparently shows the date and time of thousands of individual copyright infringements.

In the Federal Court today, where iiNet is being sued in a landmark case by seven major movie studios and the Seven Network for allegedly permitting customers to download movies illegally, iiNet's lawyers said they would clarify their position on the issue by next Wednesday.

However, they foreshadowed possible arguments that infringements did not occur, by questioning whether transferring files over BitTorrent on a "one-to-one" basis was equivalent to making them "available to the public" under copyright law.

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"They don't stop customers doing what they're doing and they keep asserting that they have insufficient information."

The studios claim iiNet in effect "authorised" customers' copyright infringement by failing to disconnect them when notified of the infringements by the movie studios.

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