BitTorrent Trial Makes Australia's High Court

daria42 writes "Australia's highest court has agreed to hear the long-running BitTorrent case between one of the country's largest ISPs, iiNet, and a group of film and TV studios represented by a copyright organization known as AFACT. The case has the potential to determine once and for all whether Australians who download content via BitTorrent can have their Internet connections disconnected upon the request of the studios. It's lawyers at ten paces!"

Im supprised it got this high.

[renegadesx]

The High Court usually only hears cases that people argue goes against the Consitution and doesn't hear appeal cases too much.

Re:So again the victims are left out

[Cimexus]

No ... there ARE no victims ... yet. That's what the case is about.

AFACT tried to make iiNet disconnect its users. iiNet refused (hence no victims). AFACT took iiNet to court. If iiNet lose, then yes there may be victims in the future. But as of yet, the end users of iiNet's service haven't suffered anything and hence aren't party to the case.

AFACT is desperate and has too much money

[Janacek]

The last judgment against AFACT in the case against iiNet was explained very well by the judge in charge of that trial. This just goes to show that the music industry and the movie industry are desperate to protect their tenuous hold on the music and movie distribution business and have the money to fight all the way to the top.