No more waiting by the letterbox for your court summons or fine for illegally downloading Oscar-winning film Dallas Buyers Club, as the Federal Court have ruled that the copyright holders of DBC will have to pay a bond of $600,000 before accessing the names and addresses of Australians who illegally downloaded the film.

Dallas Buyers Club LLC and Voltage Pictures LLC wanted to obtain the details of the people who pirated the film so that they could offer the alternative of a fine instead of taking court action. But Justice Perram had expressed concerns for the potential of DBC LLC speculative invoicing alleged pirates in Australia, and ordered that he review any drafts of correspondence Dallas Buyers Club LLC proposed to send to offenders.

“Because DBC has no presence in Australia the court is unable to punish it for contempt if it fails to honour that undertaking,” Justice Perram said.

“I will therefore require its undertaking to be secured by the lodging of a bond. Having had access to what it is that DBC proposes to demand … and the potential revenue it might make if it breached its undertaking to the court not to demand such sums, it seems to me that I should set the bond at a level which will ensure that it will not be profitable for it to do so.”

Customers of Australian internet service providers iiNet, Dodo, Internode, Amnet Broadband, Adam Internet and Wideband Networks are relatively safe….for now.

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