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Students in AU music piracy case face new sentencing date By James Pearce, ZDNet Australia November 10, 2003 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Students-in-AU-music-piracy-case-face-new-sentencing-date/0,139023166,120280779,00.htm
The sentencing of three Australian students charged with multi-million dollar copyright violations involving online music has been delayed until 18 November. In May this year Charles Ng, Tommy Le and Peter Tran were arrested in relation to copyright-breaching activities involving the Australian-based Web site "MP3 WMA Land". The three's activities were alleged to have cost the music industry up to AU$60 million. The three, who have pleaded guilty, were due to appear before Deputy Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson at the Federal Court in Sydney, but the lawyer for Ng was ill, prompting a deferral of his hearing. Le and Tran appeared before the magistrate, where counsel representing the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Paul Roberts QC, finished submissions and referred the magistrate to a similar case in the U.K. where the penalty given was 24-30 months in jail. All three defendants will now appear for sentencing in the Federal Court on 18 November.
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