Home featured Digital eCommerce Editor's Choice Digital Dallas Buyers Club case: iiNet to offer free legal services as details handover date approaches Guillermo Troncoso May 19, 2015 iiNet will have to hand over customer information shortly after 21 May, 2015, as a result of legal action taken by Dallas Buyers Club LLC (DBC) and Voltage Pictures LLC (Voltage), and they’ve decided to offer pro-bono legal services to support alleged infringers. The Dallas Buyers Club copyright case resulted in the Federal Court ordering ISPs, including iiNet, Internode, Dodo, Wideband, Adam Internet, and Amnet Broadband, to release the details of customers who had allegedly downloaded the picture. “It’s now certain that shortly after 21 May 2015 iiNet will be ordered to hand over the name and physical address details of customers whose accounts are suspected of being used to infringe copyright,” iiNet wrote in a blog post . “While this isn’t the best case scenario, any subsequent letters that are issued by the rights holders will need to be approved by the Court before they are sent to customers. It is important to remember that the Court’s findings in this case do not mean that DBC and Voltage’s allegations of copyright infringement have been proven. Any such letter is still only an allegation until an infringement is proven or admitted.” The company has penned a FAQ on its website, clarifying what the judgment will mean for those on the list of alleged infringers. iiNet says that customers will be informed at the

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