The Australian Greens welcome today's Federal Court decision in favour of Internet Service Providers in the landmark iiNet case.

The case brought by the Australian film and television industry had the potential to make Australian ISPs responsible for monitoring all web traffic on their servers.

"Clearly this would have placed an intolerable onus on ISPs to take over surveillance of every packet passing over their network and assess it according to the demands of overseas media corporations," said Greens spokesperson for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Scott Ludlam.

"The Federal Court has made an important determination which will have far reaching impacts at home and overseas," Senator Ludlam said.

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