Former music piracy investigator Michael Speck, who spearheaded the record companies' long-running campaign to shutdown Kazaa, has joined the peer-to-peer network's business partner, Altnet.
Australia's music anti-piracy unit has finally appointed a new boss after operating with contractors and fill-ins since the last general manager departed in October 2005.
Australia’s peak record industry body plans to resource its anti-piracy unit to pursue community education as well as enforcement, its chief said this afternoon.
After just five months in the role, the head of Australia’s music piracy investigations unit is leaving to take on a similar position with the movie industry’s anti-piracy operation.
The anti-piracy case between the Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) and Internet service provider Swiftel has been settled out of court.
Any appeal by key players associated with the Kazaa file-sharing software will only be heard in February or March next year.
The Federal Court of Australia has dealt a heavy blow to the managers of peer-to-peer software Kazaa, finding they had authorised users to infringe music industry copyright and directing them to modify the application to reduce the practice.
Judgement in the long-running legal battle between the music industry and Sharman Networks over alleged copyright breaches involving the Kazaa file-sharing software will be handed down in the Federal Court in Sydney this afternoon.
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.
The music industry's piracy investigations unit conducted extensive surveillance of the Sydney north shore house owned by the chief executive officer of peer-to-peer provider Sharman Networks, the unit's former boss told a court hearing last week.
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