14 DAY TRIAL // Australians thought that the best reaction to the plenty of trials, fines and sanctions initiated by the record and movie companies would be to shut down their business and to get lost.
Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), the body watching closely the observance of Australian musician copyrights now targets Sharman Networks and its creation, Kazaa.
Last week MIPI asked for sensitive information from the People Telecom internet provider, leading to the identification of those illegally sharing copyrighted music.
Such actions are credited with a high degree of efficiency, proven by the immediate shutdown of several P2P hubs at the first sign of danger. More precisely, the authors of the websites facilitating such downloads acknowledged the problem and clearly stated that ?considering the increasing number of raids against P2P sites, hitting their targets several times, we have decided to give up this business".
These are the remains of a web page previously loaded with links to the most wanted movies, music files and software installers. ?We chose this solution for protecting both ourselves and our users", announced another website.
The MIPI research within People Telecom focused on two P2P hubs: Torrent Web Pages and Archie's Hub, the latest being suspected of being configured just for providing content to ISP clients; such accusations suggest that internet providers might ?adopt BitTorrent technologies for getting financial benefits".
Given the gravity of the threat, People Telecom succumbed to outer pressure and promised to provide MIPI with all the information they need.
A couple of days before the Internet providers in Great Britain were summoned to provide similar information in an attempt to stop illegal downloads.