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Music pirate gets suspended sentence in Australia
A music pirate that was allegedly the head of a piracy syndicate operating across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific was yesterday sentenced ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19337.cfm - 12 September 2009

Anti-piracy raids, court cases in Australia
The past two weeks in Australia has brought piracy of music and movies to the country's attention, starting with a case before the Superior ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19164.cfm - 2 September 2009

Australian police bust piracy ring
Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been commended by the anti-piracy organization for the Australian music industry, Music Industry Piracy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13792.cfm - 28 April 2008

Australian police carry out anti-piracy raid in Melbourne
Victoria Police raided a music retailer in Sydney Road, Brunswick in Melbourne earlier today, seizing thousands of allegedly pirate music CDs ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13516.cfm - 3 April 2008

Australian country music pirate arrested
On October 10th, the Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) arm of the ARIA worked with the New South Wales Police to carry out a raid ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11523.cfm - 18 October 2007

Australian ISPs under pressure to use filters, cut off alleged pirates
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia are under pressure recently by both the music industry and the government to filter/block illegal ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10949.cfm - 2 September 2007

Pirate website shut down, 2,000 DVDs seized
Last week, Victorian police raided the home of a 30 year old man in South East Melbourne and seized 2,000 pirated DVD discs and computer equipment ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10933.cfm - 1 September 2007

Pirate Croatian CDs seized in Melbourne
The Australian Record Industry Association's (ARIA) Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) assisted the Victorian Police in the raid of ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10864.cfm - 25 August 2007

IFPI: 'Ten inconvenient truths about the music industry today'
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has published today an article, titled, "Ten inconvenient truths about the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9914.cfm - 31 May 2007

BSA and MIPI welcome funding to fight IP crime in Australia
A pledge from the Australian federal government to provide $12.4 million over two years to to tackle the problem of intellectual property (IP) ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9730.cfm - 17 May 2007

Australian draft report casts doubt on piracy stats
A draft government report prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology has lashed out at the music and software sectors for their piracy ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8110.cfm - 10 November 2006

Kazaa filter deadline extended to February
We reported that Kazaa was given a deadline to either implement filters by December 5th, or shut down. Now Sharman Networks, Kazaa's owner, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7060.cfm - 25 November 2005

Kazaa gets deadline to filter or shut down
An Australian court has ordered that Kazaa must implement filters to block the sharing of copyrighted music by December 5th or to shut down ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7059.cfm - 25 November 2005

Australian man guilty of copyright infringement for hyperlinks
An Australian man has bee found guilty of copyright infringement for posting hyperlinks on his website to other sites offering illegal music ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6649.cfm - 14 July 2005

ISP sysadmins to face lawsuit for music piracy
Overturning an earlier decision, an Australian federal court has ruled that two Swiftel sysadmins can be sued by the music industry for alleged ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6576.cfm - 28 June 2005

Australian 'file sharing' ISP raided
In Australia, anti-piracy operatives have raided an ISP suspected of using BitTorrent technology to allow the pirating of hundreds of thousands ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6196.cfm - 10 March 2005

Red Cross denies its Kazaa link
Red Cross has officially denied to have anything to do with a trust based in Vanuatu that owns the Sharman Networks, the company behind the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5970.cfm - 18 January 2005

Year 2004 -- evolution, not revolution
The year 2004 is coming to its end and its time to take a quick look at the major events in the digital multimedia world and also to our own ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5919.cfm - 1 January 2005

Kazaa trial begins
The controversial Kazaa trial has kicked off in Sydney, Australia today with major recording labels claiming it was the worlds biggest music ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5831.cfm - 29 November 2004

Australian court rejects Sharman's appeal
Australian appeals court has rejected Sharman Networks' (the owner of Kazaa P2P software) appeal against the raids made to its offices in February ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5679.cfm - 8 October 2004

Date set for Kazaa vs. MIPI trial
The date for the Kazaa vs. MIPI trial has finally been set -- November 29th, 2004. At the same time Judge Murray Wilcox dismissed several claims ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5381.cfm - 3 July 2004

Kazaa appeals raid ruling
Sharman Networks, the company who owns the file-sharing network Kazaa, has appealed the ruling given last week by Australian court that the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5069.cfm - 11 March 2004

Kazaa loses the first court round in Australia
Sharman Networks' (the parent company of Kazaa) attempt to invalidate the evidence found in recent raids to its headquarters in Australia failed ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5044.cfm - 4 March 2004

Trade agreement affects Australian copyright laws (updated)
The free trade agreement between the United States and Australia, which was finalized in early February, imposes many American copyright standards ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4970.cfm - 14 February 2004

The raid was illegal, says Kazaa
Sharman Networks, the owner of Kazaa peer-to-peer network claims that the raid to its office last week was not legal. The search warrant, an ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4964.cfm - 10 February 2004

Music industry raids Kazaa offices
The anti-piracy subsdiary of Australian Recording Industry Association, called Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), has raided several ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4948.cfm - 6 February 2004