The Web site at the heart of a legal battle between several music behemoths and Australian ISP ComCen was taken down this morning at 11.30 am.
The Sydney CBD internet cafe raided by the Australian Federal Police late last year has been fined $82,000 in the Downing Centre Local Court for copyright violations.
The Australian music industry's newly-appointed chief piracy investigator has warned ISPs that the current Swiftel case will herald a new regime of responsibility for copyright breaches.
Australia's music industry piracy investigations unit is preparing to face Internet service provider Swiftel Communications in the Federal Magistrates' Court on Wednesday following the raid on Swiftel's premises in Perth, Western Australia last week.
The general manager of the music industry's piracy investigations (MIPI) unit, Michael Speck, has accused Internet service providers of trying to evade copyright liability in an address to the Senate Select Committee on the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the US (AUSFTA) last week.
In order to get the real picture behind the US-Australia free trade agreement, one needs to examine the document with a fine-tooth comb. Of particular interest is how Australia will have to model its laws after the US Millennium Copyright Act.
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