AFACT Bombarded iiNet With Breach Notices

The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) had sent iiNet over 1000 copyright infringement notifications over a seven-day period, the Federal Court heard yesterday. The notifications that AFACT and other copyright owner lobbyists had sent to iiNet over a period of about five months totalled more than 7500, iiNet’s barrister Richard Cobden told the court. He also said that AFACT and other copyright owner groups’ requests persistently asked the ISP to cut its customers’ services off. Cobden said the volume of AFACT’s notifications were akin to spam, and that iiNet had suffered a constant bombardment of notifications, which, he said, were unreasonable and burdensome