MIPI told SMH that “it will also consider civil action against internet cafes simply unaware their customers are downloading content illegally.”

Their new fact sheet for Internet cafes, Are You & Your Customers Doing The Right Thing?, lists a number of things owners should do to prevent customers downloading music for free where it should be purchased.

These include:

• Watch traffic levels for internet caf? users that are hogging bandwidth.

• Set firewall rules that screen out infringing files and illicit services, for example through blocking particular internet addresses, ports or protocols on which file sharing often occurs.

• ?Control file-sharing by banning unauthorised file sharing software…

Next time you use a computer at a net cafe, make sure the owner isn’t watching you. MIPI may just be breathing down his neck.