U.S. and Australian movie and television studios are challenging a landmark court ruling that an Internet service provider cannot be held accountable for illegal movie downloads by its customers.<\/p>\n
In February, a full Australian court upheld a judge’s decision that Internet provider iiNet<\/a> Ltd. had not authorized copyright infringements by customers who downloaded thousands of pirated movies.<\/p>\n A lawyer for a group of 34 movie companies, Tony Bannon, told an appeal court Wednesday that iiNet had authorized the copyright violations by failing to take reasonable steps to prevent them.<\/p>\n The movie companies include the Australian branches of Hollywood studios Universal Pictures<\/a>, Warner Bros<\/a>. and 20th Century Fox<\/a>.<\/p>\n The hearing continues Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Movie and television studios are challenging a court ruling that an ISP cannot be held accountable for illegal movie downloads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":31624,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,125,7043],"class_list":["post-39033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-piracy","tag-tony-bannon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39035,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033\/revisions\/39035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}