As you probably known my employer IceTV have been fighting for 3 years now against the Nine network in a totally bogus attempt to misuse copyright law as a weapon against a company they saw as a threat.

We won the first round in August 2007 after an 8 month wait for the judgement.

Nine appealed to the Full Court of the Federal Court in February 2008 and won, overturning the earlier ruling in a verdict delivered in May 2008.

We sought and were immediately given special leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia, we presented our case in October 2008.

At 10:15am this morning the High Court delivered their verdict overturning Nine’s appeal and reinstating the original verdict, we have also been awarded costs for the three court cases.

As you can imagine this comes as a massive relief.

After three years living under a cloud we are finally emerging into the sunlight.

2009 is set to be a great year for IceTV and we are all excited about the possibilities ahead of us…

Watch this space

Here are some links to the many articles about the verdict….

IceTV wins High Court decision – freezes Nine!

The High Court Full Ruling – Interesting reading!!

News.com.au

PC Authority

The Age

IT Wire

Lifehacker

Smarthouse

ZD Net

If you’re not asleep by now then more power to you…

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After a monumental wait the decision in the Nine Vs IceTV case has been handed down….

I will have a link to our press release once it’s online but for now here are a few links to articles in the main stream press

Smarthouse News

SMH

The Age

As you can imagine this is a load off all our minds and is set to usher in a new phase in our business….

UPDATE: We have our own post up now…

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I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while, in fact I’ve been meaning to blog about a lot of things, I just don’t have the time…

Anyway, the little fledgling start up that I work for IceTV has once again come to the attention of the Free to air TV stations.

This time it is channel 9 who are trying to shut us down, ( see our corporate page for the sordid details ).

The amusing thing is that rather than spooking would be investors as they had hoped, what channel 9 have really done is supply us with a whole heap of free publicity.

On Tuesday we had at least 5 seperate articles posted about us in mainstream newspapers and journals, our web stats jumped from around 6K hits per day to a whopping 30K hits.

Only time will tell the results of this action, we are confident that we are in the right, but when it comes to the law who knows what will happen.

Watch this space for further info… Remember kids, “skipping ads is bad, mmmmkay!!!”.