The managing director of the country’s leading anti-copyright theft body, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), has admitted that online piracy of television programs and movies is an inevitability.

 

Speaking at a seminar at the University of Melbourne, Neil Gane said that the combination of a desire to access material without cost and to view content as soon as possible was driving the proliferation of piracy, and that the Federal Government needs to intervene.

 

Fresh from the defeat at the hands of the High Court in a long running dispute over the infringements of copyright of iiNet’s customer base, AFACT is continuing to lobby against the ever expanding illegal use of peer-to-peer software.

 

Mr Gale says the current legal framework is ill equipped to deal with the problem, saying that more must be done to enforce copyright infringements.