So IINet won the case. In a way this is awesome, “common sense has prevailed” as the EFF has said.

The giants of the film industry have lost their case against ISP iiNet in a landmark judgment handed down in the Federal Court today.

The decision had the potential to impact internet users and the internet industry profoundly as it sets a legal precedent surrounding how much ISPs are required to do to prevent customers from downloading movies and other content illegally.

But does this mean organisations like AFACT are going to start suing individual people for millions of dollars like other companies are doing in the US?

I mean, after all that was IINet’s main defence, that they are just an internet provider and are not responsible for what individuals do.

Hmm.