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