iiNet says no laws were breached Austraian IT IiNet yesterday told the NSW Federal Court that movie studios accusing it of sanctioning illegal file sharing on the internet had vastly exaggerated the extent of copyright infringement carried out on its service.Lawyers representing the internet firm said customers identified in a 59-week movie studio investigation into illegal file-sharing networks couldn’t have breached copyright laws to the extent suggested by the studios’ lawyers.As the landmark trial entered its second day of hearing, the ISP’s barrister, Richard Cobden SC, argued that it was technically impossible for the customers to have breached copyright laws in the volume the studios’ lawyers claimed. Yesterday lawyers for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), which is representing the 34 movie and music content owners suing iiNet, said that the studios’ investigators estimated that iiNet customers infringed copyright in 96,000 instances. Mr Cobden conceded that the customers made unlicensed copies of movies and music available to the public

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