p2pnet.net News:- The date is set for Big Music cartel’s Australian faux police unit to face ISP Swiftel Communications in the Federal Court following its raid on Swiftel in Perth, Western Australia last week, says ZDNet Australia.

Swiftel and soon-to-be-ex-Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) boss Michael Speck were ordered by federal magistrate Rolf Driver to appear in the Federal Court on March 16, says the story.

The ARIA’s (Australian Recording Industry Association) MIPI raided Swiftel after Driver granted a civil search order.

Is this the first Australian legal proceeding against an ISP said to have used BitTorrent to link copyright infringers to music clips and sound recordings?

Speck thinks so.

BitTorrent’s Antipodean popularity is down in part, at least, to local TV programmers who’ve, “adopted a strategy of being slow to air current episodes of popular TV shows,” Australian IP expert Alex Malik told p2pnet recently.

By delaying the broadcast of popular TV programs, Oz programmers have increased local demand for popular TV programs, he says. As a result, “impatient viewers have increasingly turned to BitTorrent to download their favourite shows.”

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See:-
ZDNet Australia – Court date set for Aussie BitTorrent case, March 14, 2005
raided Swiftel - Big Music ‘raids’ Oz ISP, p2pnet, March 10, 2005

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