Australian pirates win against Dallas Buyers Club lawsuit :)

Pirates give the finger to evil overseas corporations. Pirates unite!

A while back the copyright holders of the Dallas Buyers Club movie took to court an Australian ISP in a landmark case. They were wanting the details of nearly 5,000 Australians who had downloaded the movie via torrents "illegally" to take these individuals to court over it.

After a two year court battle they have failed to do so, and have now abandoned their case.

Yes darlings, us Australian pirates, the most downloadingest country in the whole wide world, have beaten the evil corporations! Suck shit corporations! *waves sword around menacingly* 

Take that stupid northern hemisphere-ian evil assholes who want to rule our world from afar. What are you going to do, take half the bloody country to court? *pffffft* Take that Murdoch, take that pay TV, take that media moguls who want to drip feed us entertainment at an outrageously expensive price and punish us for rebelling. Hah! We win again!

Apparently the corporations have in the past won in other stupid northern hemishere-ian type countries. Well folks we work to our own rules down under. To all other evil corporations who want to suck half of Australia dry over watching a $5 movie if rented, I double dog dare you to come down under and try it on with us. Go on fuckwits.

The copyright holders of Dallas Buyers Club will drop legal proceedings against ISP iiNet and its customers over illegal downloading of the movie, bringing an end to the nearly two year battle. 

The law firm representing DBC LLC, Marque Lawyers confirmed late yesterday that they would not be making any further applications after its last bid in December was blocked. 

The firm said that there was simply nothing that could be done to get the outcome they sought, so there was no point in proceeding. 

After initially finding in favour of the movie owners, but with a stringent set of conditions, Justice Nye Perram of the Federal Court dismissed the Dallas Buyers Club LLC case against iiNet entirely late last year. DBC LLC had until February 16 to appeal, in a now landmark ruling on movie piracy in Australia. 

DBC LLC was attempting to get the names and details of nearly 5000 iiNet account holders it accused of illegally sharing the film, hoping to recoup some of the piracy costs. 

Dallas Buyers Club LLC was originally granted access in April to the 4726 iiNet account holders who allegedly shared the film over torrent networks. 

However Justice Perram put a stay on the order until the studio satisfied him on the details of how they would communicate the alleged infringement to account holders. 

He was concerned was a tactic known as speculative invoicing, where the company issues a demand for a sum of money that is often much more than they are actually owed and threaten legal action if the money isn’t paid. The alleged offender usually has no idea what they owe and pay the money to avoid legal costs. Business Insider