MUMBAI: Perth-based Internet service provider (ISP) iiNet has finally won its long legal battle against a group of Hollywood studios after the Federal Court established that the ISP was not liable for the downloading habits of its customers.

The group of Hollywood studios was represented by AFACT which held iiNet users responsible violating the copyright act. The studios argued that the ISP didn‘t take proper steps to curb piracy and was in turn encouraging this act.

However, post listening to both the parties and investigating into the case further, the Federal Court reached the conclusion that iiNet did not have control on the peer to peer file sharing system called BitTorrent and therefore, couldn‘t be held responsible.

The judge dismissed the case and asked the group of Hollywood studios to pay the court the costs.