Long live iiNET!!

I wouldn’t exactly called iiNet ‘small’ – they’re the nation’s third largest ISP

Malone said the company referred to legal downloads, such as those from iTunes. Bannon countered by saying this could not be the case, since iiNet did not count downloads from iTunes towards a customer’s bandwidth quota.

Malone should have said “podcasts” instead of “iTunes”. There are lots of TV shows freely available as podcasts direct from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, etc.

Malone had said that BitTorrent transfers accounted for around 50% of all Internet traffic and admitted in court that BitTorrent had been used on iiNet’s network since it became available. He went on to agree that while much of this traffic involved the transfer of movies and TV shows, he didn’t feel that “..every young person in Australia is downloading illegally using BitTorrent.”

Malone should have said, “use of Bittorrent is not illegal and not all Bittorrent traffic is illegal.” Bank robbers often drive cars and 90% of all highway traffic is cars yet highways and cars are not illegal.

Malone again confirmed that iiNet has no formal policy on how to deal with these type of allegations, noting that the company had yet to be presented with evidence of what he described as a “repeat infringer”.

Malone should have said iiNet is a “common carrier” and has no obligation to monitor, investigate or restrict the data on their network. AFACT can get a subpoena just like anybody else.

I’m starting to think iiNet will loose this case. Of course it seems like most of these half-baked cases are so rigged that the legal arguments might not matter anyway.

yeah! this story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com…

Downloading may refer to any form of drawing something from the internet: If you are reading my comment, you just downloaded it.

AFACT are twits, and I wish they had thier logo on things they represent purely to avoid them.

There’s certain data we sync between all branches that way to minimize the impact on the HQ connections.

BT is a very handy technology and I’m starting to think that quite a lot of the BT traffic detected by these copyright idiots is actually legal traffic.

This is TORRENTfreak, remember to seed what you download ;)

btw what is the proportion of pr0n in all traffic?

And I also do the same for the bigwig music labels and artists.

Fuck You bigwig greedbags.You will piss off enough people and make me happy when more and more jump on gorehounds rantings.

Downloading is not only morally right, its your DUTY to force these idiots into the next century.

Download for your kids future.

iiNet: $49.95 a month, 13 gB, ADSL2+

TPG: $49.99 a month, 100 gB, ADSL2+

http://www.iinet.net.au/broadband/plans.html
http://tpg.com.au/products_services/adsl2plus_pricing.php

iiNet has this thing called ‘The Freezone’. This includes all ABC iView, Xbox Live and iTunes traffic. It means that whatever bandwidth you use from these services does not get subtracted from your available quota. There are also other ‘Free’ downloads – http://freezone.iinet.net.au/ for more.

Hence the argument – how can you say ‘This quota will give you approximately ‘xx’ amounts of songs’ if the legal music downloads don’t count towards your quota?.

iiNet could argue that there are other sources of online music that DO count towards quota usage, e.g. Bigpond Music.( http://bigpondmusic.com/?ref=Net-Head-Music )

Court Order on substaiatied data from a verified source is the only way to go else I could easily ring up an ISP and say IP xxx.xx.xx.xxx has infringed my copyright, delete his account. And all this for a laugh.

What crack is Bannon on, and why the fucking hell hasn’t this been thrown out of court yet?

Remember Kids, Bittorrent is for devil worshipers so don’t use it unless you want to worship the devil.

Let’s replace the words ‘repeat infringer’ with murderer, burglar, thief, robber, drug dealer or prostitute, all of which you would be able to sue another for were you to be publicly labled as such without the relevant judicial processes being carried out.

Is this Bannon guy a first year articled clerk or what???

Sadly they have more cash to throw at this small ISP, so I fear hope could be lost anyway or this is just an attempt to keep hammering away at their money so they can appeal and drain more resources from them.