{"id":693,"date":"2010-02-04T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T04:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2010-02-09T10:49:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:49:29","slug":"iinet-wins-piracy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"iiNet wins ‘piracy’ case"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"yaaaarrrrrrrrhWell, duh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The police can’t fine Toyota when I double park, either.<\/p>\n

AFACT was clutching at straws- and Justice Cowdroy made sure they know it by forcing them to pay iiNet’s costs.<\/p>\n

Senator Conjob judged the outcome<\/a> of the case just about as well as he’s judged mandatory internet censorship.<\/p>\n

Conroy at the ATUG Awards, where, astonishingly, he was awarded the ‘Communicator of the Year<\/a>‘ medal:<\/p>\n

“I saw iiNet’s defence in court under oath … they have no idea if their customers are downloading illegally music or movies,” he said today at the Commsday summit in Sydney. “Stunning defence, stunning defence,” he continued in what appeared to be a sarcastic comment.<\/p>\n

“I thought a defence in terms of ‘we had no idea’ … belongs in a Yes Minister episode.”<\/p>\n

Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin, speaking afterwards, said he believed Conroy’s jibe was outrageous and only served to get back at iiNet for its exit from the government’s ISP filtering trial. “I have to say his handling of his promise [the National Broadband Network] is much more typical of what you would see on Yes Minister,” Minchin said.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“The capacity to ignore what the customers are doing and claim no responsibility is being tested in court right now,” [Conroy] said. “It could be a ground-breaking case.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ground-breaking indeed. Just not the ground Reichsminister Conroy wanted broken.<\/p>\n

ISPs shouldn’t be forced to police copyright infringements, any more than they should be forced to police the content Australians view on the ‘net.<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, duh. The police can’t fine Toyota when I double park, either. AFACT was clutching at straws- and Justice Cowdroy made sure they know it by forcing them to pay iiNet’s costs. Senator Conjob judged the outcome of the case just about as well as he’s judged mandatory internet censorship. Conroy at the ATUG Awards, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}