Court date set for Aussie BitTorrent case
Australia's music industry piracy investigations unit is preparing to face Internet service provider Swiftel Communications in the Federal Court on Wednesday following the raid on Swiftel's premises in Perth, Western Australia last week.
According to the outgoing chief of Music Industry Piracy Investigations, Michael Speck, both parties were given an oral order by magistrate Rolf Driver to appear in the Federal Court this Wednesday, 16 March.
Driver issued a civil search order last week for the raid on the ISP in what MIPI says is the first Australian assault on the use of BitTorrent technology for copyright infringement.
The evidence gathered during last week's raid will be used for the copyright case this Wednesday. The MIPI investigation, which started since December last year, focused on two Internet Web servers known as the Torrent Web pages and a Web site known as Archie's Hub.
Speck said their investigation found that the Torrent Web pages and Archie's Hub were hosted on the Internet by a system whose domain names were listed as being owned by Swiftel Communications and Swiftel Pty Ltd.
The piracy investigations unit established that Swiftel Communications and Swiftel Broadband are wholly owned subsidiaries of People Telecom.
