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Australian Record Labels Conducted Surveillance on Kazaa CEO

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 31, 2005 - 6:07am.
Sydney -- The Australian music industry conducted extensive surveillance on Nikki Hemming, CEO of file-sharing software firm Sharman Networks, in the course of its copyright infringement investigation of the company, ZDNet Australia reported on Tuesday. Michael Speck, of Australia's Music Industry Piracy Investigations, told the court currently hearing a copyright infringement case against Sharman that Hemming was tailed on a "continuous basis," and that her residence was monitored for several months in an effort to determine who actually controlled Kazaa. "She personally wasn't a subject, rather the premises associated with her were. Conducting an investigation into a shadowy organization hiding behind a veil of secrecy and surveillance is a normal practice," Speck told ZDNet Australia.
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