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• 19 Jun 09
  

  Patrick O'Keefe
  • Internet service provider iiNet has been ordered by Australia's Federal Court to hand over a sample of twenty customer records, to be used as evidence in a landmark copyright case.
  • At the close of the directions motions hearing today, both iiNet and film industry group AFACT (The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) could lay claim to a victory.
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  • • The court also ordered iiNet to hand over the IP addresses and download history of twenty of iiNet's customer accounts, scrubbed of personal identifiers, to be used as evidence in the case.
    • Steve Dalby, chief regulatory officer at iiNet told iTnews that AFACT was originally seeking in the order of 300-400 accounts.
    • A spokesperson for AFACT told iTnews that the twenty accounts were specified by AFACT. The spokesperson also said that several of the accounts within this evidence were gathered via 'trap purchases'.  
    • While iiNet's request for discovering the global copyright investigations of the film industry was struck down by the judge today, the ISP was granted some relief in relation to a request to have documents around local investigations brought before the court.
    • AFACT has been ordered to co-operate with iiNet in relation to 21 categories of discovery and produce documents in relation to 19 more.
    • "There are 400 ISPs operating in Australia. If we were expected to take specific actions that nobody else is required to undertake, we would argue that is quite unreasonable. So we are asking AFACT the question while under the confidentiality of the court - what agreements do you have with other ISPs?"
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