Copyrights Of Distribution Of Dallas Buyers Club ( Dbc ) V...

Introduction -Discussion of issue Copyrights of distribution of Dallas Buyers Club (DBC) v iiNet Limited case over infringement of copyrights. They complain that their copyrights were infringed by 4726 internet users downloading and then sharing their work via torrent websites without paying for the privilege. DBC LLC s, Voltage Pictures, used a German-based firm Macek Eye UG to find out users sharing the film using Bit Torrent and found out 4,726 IP addresses. The case was filed before The Federal Court of Australia requesting the personal details of the infringers linked to the IP addresses to 6 Internet Service Providers (ISP) to recover the damages of copies download and upload by infringers.(DBC) wanted to recover the cost of the purchase of a single copy of the film, for each copy download. A licence fee for each person found to have also uploaded the film without copyrights and the court cost for expenses in retrieving each downloader’s name. In April 2015, Justice Perram J considered the petition and passed a judgement to hand over the personal details of the infringers linked to the IP addresses to Iinet Limited, INTERNODE, Adam Internet, Dodo, Wideband and Ammnet Broadband. Due to concerns about people receiving demands for large payments with treat of being sued by the film owners, the Federal Court ordered the film owners were asked to show a copy of the letter before sent to downloaders. In May 2015 the court stepped back and asked ISP s not to share