[LINK] Film industry takes on iiNet

[Scott Howard]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> Interesting that I had a chat about this very thing with a friend in
> Vic Police last night. Copyright is not a criminal offence, but a
> civil offence that takes a plaintiff to file charge, not the police.
>

No, it is both.  Specifically Computer Software and Films are mentioned in
the general scope of the criminal provisions..

That said, in general simply downloading a movie would not be covered by the
criminal provisions, however it could probably be argued that distributing
the downloaded copyright material could be criminal - and of course P2P
involves uploading as much as it involves downloading...

The Attorney-General's Department has a lot of copyright information on
their website at http://www.ag.gov.au/copyright

  Scott.