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Aussie ISP in court over song-swapping
News In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the world, the Australian music industry has listed an Internet service provider (ISP) as a respondent in a court case involving music piracy. Around the world the music industry is attempting...
[October 21, 2003, 15:25]
Australian body calls for mod-chip legalisation
News The Australian Consumers Association on Monday recommended legalising the use of mod chips as it cautiously greeted a recent proposal to introduce a levy on digital recording media and devices. The ACA has recommended that the use of mod chips be...
[June 21, 2004, 10:00]
Kazaa loses court battle
News Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), a division of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), seized hard drive images and other documents from the Sydney offices of Sharman, associated company Altnet and the homes of executives...
[September 5, 2005, 15:55]
Australia may permit 'personal' music copying
News Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) chief executive officer Stephen Peach previously said that they do not support changing the Copyright Act and imposing a levy on blank media. Current Australian legislation makes these activities...
[June 25, 2004, 10:20]
Gadgets 'new must-have of 2004' - music boss
News 2004 will be the year of portable "music gadgets" and will see a number of new businesses entering the online music market, according to Domenic Carosa, chief executive of Australian digital-music provider Destra Corporation.
[January 2, 2004, 9:20]
File-swap software will foil enforcers
News However, the music industry has already demonstrated they're willing to take users to court for one example of copyright infringement, with three Australian universities being ordered to hand over files that may contain evidence of copyright...
[July 22, 2003, 9:10]
Kazaa owner takes heart from US copyright ruling
News The action was brought by Universal Music Australia and numerous supplementary Australian record companies. Although analogous doctrines are recognised by Australian courts, the principles to be applied are not identical.
[August 20, 2004, 10:00]
'Controlled' music copying okay - record industry group
News Australian Record Industry Association chief executive officer, Stephen Peach, told ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia: "We certainly don't agree consumers should have the statutory right to simply make copies, we think that right should rest in...
[July 1, 2004, 12:10]
Site at centre of Aussie court battle switched off
News The Web site at the heart of a legal battle between several music industry behemoths and Australian Internet service provider (ISP) ComCen was taken down this morning. If the music companies are successful in suing ComCen, more lawsuits are likely...
[October 27, 2003, 8:25]
Sharman case back in court
News Sharman Networks is arguing that the case bought by the Australian record labels is substantially the same case as that being fought in the United States, and should therefore be set aside or deferred until the US case is finished.
[February 20, 2004, 14:25]
Kazaa's parent takes another legal beating
News Bannon told an Australian Federal Court hearing, presided over by Justice Murray Wilcox, in Sydney on Monday that the P2P music file sharing software Kazaa has 100 million users who share around 3 billion unauthorised sound recordings per month.
[November 29, 2004, 7:40]
MP3 site 'just a search engine'
News On Tuesday, six large record companies took ComCen and Australian Stephen Cooper to court over alleged acts of music piracy. The Internet company targeted by the music industry over alleged copyright breaches, ComCen, has denied it hosted any...
[October 23, 2003, 13:10]
Aussie court backtracks on mod chips
News Earlier this month Stephen Peach, chief executive officer of the Australian Record Industry Association, said that making a backup copy of a legally purchased music CD was illegal, and rejected suggestions the law should be changed to allow it.
[July 31, 2003, 16:19]
Kazaa's owner breaks silence
News With respect to intellectual property and copyright protection, Hemming said she was not aware of any attempt made by the Australian Record Industry Association to contact Sharman Networks. Hemming registered LEF Interactive in late February just...
[April 24, 2002, 10:17]
Copy-protected CD hacked--or is it?
News Aquilino added that Pride did everything he could to make sure his content in the United States was protected, but was unable to do anything for the Australian market. Those efforts come against a backdrop of frustration in the music industry...
[May 16, 2001, 8:48]
Morpheus shutdown puts rival in the spotlight
News The Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America haven't definitively said they will sue Sharman or support a similar tactic by their Australian counterparts. The surprise shutdown of the popular Morpheus file...
[March 6, 2002, 9:31]
Kazaa plans defensive ad campaign
News The Australian company has been scrambling for months to find a way to convince record companies and movie studios that it is sincerely interested in becoming a legitimate, licensed distributor of mainstream entertainment content.
[November 13, 2003, 11:50]
Sharman offices raided by piracy investigators
News The Kazaa operation infringes copyright within the terms of the Australian Copyright Act," he said. Sharman Networks, Australian subsidiary LEF Interactive and BDE will face the record company lawyers before Justice Wilcox on Tuesday.
[February 6, 2004, 8:35]
Evidence of piracy allegedly destroyed
News The music industry is urgently seeking a court hearing after being advised by lawyers for Australian universities involved in legal action over alleged online music piracy that evidence subject to a court order has been destroyed, a piracy...
[July 25, 2003, 9:57]
Record labels win round against file-swapping students
News Sydney University can't hide behind claims that file-swapping data sought by record labels was deleted from its system, an Australian federal judge has ruled. The files sought by the music companies had already been overwritten.
[July 31, 2003, 9:40]
