This made me laugh. Hysterically.

From http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/20/1411213:

“Leading Hollywood film studios Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Disney Enterprises are suing Australia’s second largest ISP, iiNet, saying it’s complicit in the infringement of their copyrighted material. According to a statement of claim, “the ISP knows that there are a large number of customers who are engaging in continuing infringements of copyright by using BitTorrent file sharing technology.”

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You might as well sue every ISP in the world while you’re at it!

Wake up and smell the roses, bitches:

• BitTorrent is decentralised. It can be tracked, but not stopped. What part of that don’t these mugs get!?
• Even if ISPs were to block it (many do), that doesn’t account for the use of encryption and IPsec VPNs to hide the traffic.
• If you’re going to go suing ISP’s who allow the transmission of “copyrighted material”, good luck, you will have to sue every transit provider on the way, too. Many of which are much better equipped financially and legally than these studios.
• BitTorrent has (and was intended to be used for) perfectly legitimate uses! Large ISOs… game updates… streaming TV, just to name but a few. Outlaw BitTorrent, and I guarantee the Internet will grind to a halt overnight.

The moral of this story: Media organisations in this day and age have an outdated business model that is being superseded by a far more efficient and most importantly fair one. If, instead of suing every man, woman, dog, schoolkid and corpse like they do now, they were to embrace the Internet as a distribution model this stupid s**t would stop happening.

Seriously – whoever runs these companies cannot possibly be qualified to run a business if they can’t see that…