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  • Sydney movie, music pirate earns jail time

    The Australian arms of the music and film industry have won a victory against piracy with the news that Sydney man Yong Hong Lin has been handed a three-month jail term for selling illegal imported discs from his Eastwood music and movie store.

  • Music pirate fined $22,000

    Police have prosecuted a man for selling 200 pirated CDs and DVDs at a market in Sydney, resulting in a AU$22,000 fine.

  • France moves closer to iTunes law

    French politicians have approved an online copyright bill that will require Apple to break open the exclusive format behind its market-leading iTunes music store and iPod players.

  • Anti-P2P lawmaker given top IP position

    A US senator who once said that copyright holders should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of music pirates has been made chair of a new committee on copyright and patent law.

  • Ninemsn says it gives music pirates a choice

    Microsoft and Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) online media joint venture, Ninemsn, hopes its new online music store launched in Sydney late yesterday will curb illegal music file sharing.

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