The owners of file-sharing giant Kazaa asked a federal court Tuesday to rule as inadmissible evidence record industry investigators collected during several raids last week.
Lawyers for Sharman Networks, which owns Kazaa, questioned whether the Federal Court in Sydney had the power to allow the 12 raids in three Australian states, including those on the homes of Sharman chief executive officer Nikki Hemming and the company’s director of technology, Phil Morle.
Sharman also applied for Australian breach of copyright legal action against Kazaa to be halted until a similar case is finalized in the United States.
Judge Murray Wilcox adjourned the case until Feb. 20. No details of evidence gathered in the raids by a group called Music Industry Piracy Investigations, or MIPI, were revealed in court.
MIPI is funded by six major Australian record labels who want the federal court to shut down Kazaa’s alleged copyright infringement activities.
In a statement, Sharman said the raids were unnecessary as the company has already provided similar evidence for the U.S. legal proceedings.
“The recording industry plaintiffs, through their representative MIPI, have used the legal equivalent of a nuclear bomb to obtain documentation that is already being readily produced by Sharman through the U.S. court system,” Sharman said.
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