{"id":11374,"date":"2010-02-04T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:57:00","slug":"first-tweeted-court-trial-goes-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/11374-first-tweeted-court-trial-goes-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"First tweeted court trial goes ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Court judge Dennis Cowdroy approved the unusual measure, which resulted in hundreds of postings on the micro-blogging site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This proceeding has attracted widespread interest both here in Australia and abroad, and both within the legal community and the general public,&#8221; he said in a summary of the case released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cowdroy rejected the bid by a consortium of film studios to hold iiNet, Australia&#8217;s third biggest Internet Service Provider, responsible for thousands of illegal film and TV series downloads.<\/p>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?215116-First-tweeted-court-trial&amp;p=3591151\">First Tweeted court trial goes ahead<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Discussion<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark copyright trial that rebuffed a Hollywood bid to hold an Internet provider responsible for illegal downloads, was also Australia&#039;s first proceedings reported live on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}