Hollywood Loses Copyright Case

In the Australian Federal Court, a ruling was passed that removed responsibility for controlling movie downloads (piracy) from ISPs. iiNET was the ISP in question and it had claimed that its subscribers could copy movies across the internet without the ISP being able to effectively control it.

From The Age
"iiNet is not responsible if an iiNet user uses that system to bring about copyright infringement ... the law recognises no positive obligation on any person to protect the copyright of another," Justice Cowdroy said.

Q1. What is the impact on the movie industry?

Q2. How can copyright be protected in these situations?

Q3. What is BitTorrent and how is it used?