Movie studio loses piracy lawsuit

Sydney: Walt Disney Co and Viacom Inc’s Paramount Pictures are among Hollywood’s biggest movie studios that lost a piracy lawsuit in Australia as an appeals court upheld a ruling that a local internet provider wasn’t responsible for customers illegally downloading films.

The Federal Court of Australia Full Court, in a two-one decision, upheld Judge Dennis Cowdroy’s February 4, 2010, verdict that vindicated iiNet Ltd.

Village Roadshow Ltd’s Roadshow Films led the precedent-setting case.