Mark it down. It may just be one of the most important dates in Australian ICT and copyright history.

It's the start of:

In other words, the civil action between a host of film Studios and a couple of TV stations - as represented by Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft ( ) - versus Internet Service Provider (ISP),

Today AFACT will present its case in a proceeding that may take up to one and a half days. During that time it is expected legal representation for AFACT will run through a host of arguments, the essence being that iiNet did not do enough to stop its customers using peer to peer networks (BitTorrent) to share copyrighted files.

In its defence, which should take a similar amount of time to run through, iiNet will most likely vigorously hit back at the accusation and say it has not given any support to copyright infringement by its customers.