[Chapter-delegates] Australian court rules in favour of Internet service provider

[Joly MacFie]

Narelle:

> The other important point is that the judge distinguished between a
> "BitTorrent system" and the Internet itself. I could paraphrase this
> by saying that "one software system is not the Internet". This is
> important in the creation and operation of network protocols: ISOC's
> core business! We've been saying for years that "Internet Explorer and
> the web is not the Internet".
>
I think the defendant's "electricity" analogy was apt in this respect.

Alejandro:

> My more substantial point is to look into this news in the context of the festering discontent about ACTA. From what is believed about that Treaty, the Australian resolution here runs counter to one of its main principles.

No doubt the film industry will use it as a hammer to insist that ACTA
like regulation is needed.




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