A judge in Australia shot down a lawsuit by the movie studios to hold ISPs liable for what their customers use their bandwidth for - and thus, trotting all over your basic freedom rights and making the book 1984 come true - based on the fact that he felt the lawsuit was launched where it was because it was a small ISP they were going after hoping for an easy win and he didn't want to set a worldwide precedent when he felt it was clearly wrong
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2010/02/04 ... right.html
I was amazed that there's actually a judge out there somewhere in the world who actually thinks about not only national but international consequences of his actions. It's not like the man agrees with illegal downloading, he said it's illegal, but he couldn't agree that the ISPs are to become the policemen of such activities.
That's 1 judge who isn't a waste of skin and bones. Let's see if that number will grow after the case goes to appeals and the supreme court over there.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2010/02/04 ... right.html
I was amazed that there's actually a judge out there somewhere in the world who actually thinks about not only national but international consequences of his actions. It's not like the man agrees with illegal downloading, he said it's illegal, but he couldn't agree that the ISPs are to become the policemen of such activities.
That's 1 judge who isn't a waste of skin and bones. Let's see if that number will grow after the case goes to appeals and the supreme court over there.
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
