In a case slightly similar to the BPI v Easy Everything case here in the UK back in 2003, an Australian court has fined an internet café in Sydney for encouraging customers to download illegal music files via their computers, and charging them an hourly fee to do so.
In the Easy Everything case, the BPI successfully sued the UK internet café operator because it offered a CDR burning service where customers could download content via one of the café's PCs and then pay for it to be burned to CD. Although the service wasn't specifically set up for the downloading of music, it was shown many people did so, and mostly from illegal sources (this was in 2001, so there weren't many legal sources anyway).
The Interville Technology café in Sydney seems to have been infringing copyright much more blatantly, with staff downloading thousands of illegal tracks to the store's servers so that customers didn't even have to go online to access music. An investigation by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft and Music Industry Piracy Investigations led to a raid on the café last December, and this week the café's owners were fined AUS$ 82,000 plus costs, and forced to relinquish their services and computers.
MIPI's Sabiene Heindl told reporters: "This is a fantastic result for a significant case in the fight against music piracy. For the first time, an internet café has been targeted and justly reprimanded for its blatant facilitation of widespread copyright infringement for commercial gain".