Outgoing Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) general manager, Michael Speck, said the raid was launched this afternoon at the offices of Swiftel Communications in the Western Australian capital’s central business district after federal magistrate Rolf Driver yesterday granted a civil search order.
“We have identified Swiftel as an ISP which has adopted BitTorrent technology to link infringers to music clips and sound recordings,” Speck commented in a statement released this afternoon.
“We believe hundreds of thousands of downloads have been conducted in the last year in breach of copyright laws”.
Evidence gathered during the raid would, Speck said, be used to bring a copyright prosecution before the courts. Whilst some only see this as a fishing expedition to test the waters of australian copyright law, others are scared that the following actions could set a precident , where isps in Australia are responsible for there customers behavior. The broader filesharing community are left wondering whether this is a parting shot by Michael Speck who appears to be stepping down from his position in early April.
One can only wonder who will be the next appointed representitive of the cartels monoply
