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    The federal court has ruled two systems administrators from Internet service provider Swiftel can be sued for alleged music piracy, overriding an earlier decision.

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    Major record labels in Australia have finally won a legal battle against a Queensland man and his Internet Service Provider for alleged music piracy.

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    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.

  • Aust open source body lashes Gartner analysis

    Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) is disputing Gartner analyst Annette Jump's claim that pre-installing Linux on PCs encourages piracy of Windows.

  • Director and employee of ISP sued over mp3 site

    The music industry has succeeded in having a director and an employee of an ISP added to a court case against a Web site allegedly offering illegal music files.

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  • Do you copy? Over and out.

    Last week saw two legal wins for copyright owners in their battle against piracy, but raised questions of whether large corporations are playing fair in the marketplace. If they're so keen on globalisation and having a 'level playing field', lets see them walk the walk themselves.

  • Captured! Three document capture systems tested

    Digitising your paper documents makes good business sense. We look at products designed to streamline the process.

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