Sharman Networks, the owner of Kazaa peer-to-peer network claims that the raid to its office last week was not legal. The search warrant, an Anton Pillar order, which granted the Music Industry Piracy Investigations, MIPI the right to conduct the search was not granted based on all the facts, Sharman says.
An Anton Pillar order is used in software piracy cases, and gives the right to conduct a raid without prior notice to the suspect. According to Sharman the judge who gave the order was not presented with all the relevant facts to the case and therefore the order should be set aside.
Sharman\'s complaint will be heard on February 20. Until then MIPI cannot access the seized documents, the company says. - [http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4964.cfm]
related story:
The anti-piracy subsdiary of Australian Recording Industry Association, called Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), has raided several companies and universities in Australia, trying to find documents that would prove that they have violated Australia\'s copyright laws.
Raid were launched after Australian court granted MIPI a search warrant, so-called Anton Pillar order, that allows copyright owners to search premises to find evidence of alleged copyright violations. Raid targeted Sharman Networks (the owner of Kazaa), Telstra (Australia\'s largest ISP) and several major universities. - [http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4948.cfm]
I\'m not using kazaa for quite a long time, not sure how the services now but it looks like that they are into every possible targets. However, this is Internet. You shutdown one networks, other networks start blooming on instantly. :)
