First tweeted court trial goes ahead
Federal Court judge Dennis Cowdroy approved the unusual measure, which resulted in hundreds of postings on the micro-blogging site.
“This proceeding has attracted widespread interest both here in Australia and abroad, and both within the legal community and the general public,” he said in a summary of the case released on Thursday.
“So much so that I understand this is the first Australian trial to be Twittered or tweeted. I granted approval for this to occur in view of the public interest in the proceeding, and it seems rather fitting for a copyright trial involving the Internet.”
Cowdroy rejected the bid by a consortium of film studios to hold iiNet, Australia’s third biggest Internet Service Provider, responsible for thousands of illegal film and TV series downloads.
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