A legal stoush has emerged between Australia’s music industry and the country’s largest internet service provider, BigPond, over the potentially explosive issue of copyright infringement.Letters obtained by Media — exchanged between legal representatives of the country’s peak music industry body, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), and BigPond — from earlier this year show a gulf between the two parties’ positions. Sources from both the music industry and the Telstra-owned BigPond said last night their positions had not changed since the legal letters had been issued.
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au: ARIA and BigPond at war over copyright infringement
A legal stoush has emerged between Australia’s music industry and the country’s largest internet service provider, BigPond, over the potentially explosive issue of copyright infringement.