In the spirit of the season that's in it, the music industry in Australia have made an application to a federal court to have Kazaa owners declared in contempt of that court's order to implement software filters. Representatives of Sharman Networks, which owns Kazaa, say they have implemented the filters and succeeded in preventing most Australians from downloading copyrighted music using their software. The music companies are annoyed that the filters do not apparently apply outside Australia.
The judge said "Contempt proceedings are fairly rare in this court and I've never yet sent anyone to jail. I've threatened to a few times, but there's always a first I suppose."
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