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| By Manager Online | 5 February 2010 12:59 |
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February 5, 2010
SYDNEY (AFP) - A landmark copyright trial that rebuffed a Hollywood bid to hold an Internet provider responsible for illegal downloads, was also Australia's first proceedings reported live on Twitter.
Federal Court judge Dennis Cowdroy approved the unusual measure, which resulted in hundreds of postings on the micro-blogging site.
"This proceeding has attracted widespread interest both here in Australia and abroad, and both within the legal community and the general public," he said in a summary of the case released on Thursday.
"So much so that I understand this is the first Australian trial to be Twittered or tweeted. I granted approval for this to occur in view of the public interest in the proceeding, and it seems rather fitting for a copyright trial involving the Internet."
Cowdroy rejected the bid by a consortium of film studios to hold iiNet, Australia's third biggest Internet Service Provider, responsible for thousands of illegal film and TV series downloads.
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