Interville Technology was fined A$82,000 (US$53,600) plus court costs after allowing users to download copyright-protected movies and music as part of its Internet usage.

The company was charged with 40 counts of copyright infringement which included streaming movies and selling 60Gb harddrives loaded with pirate media.

The raid followed an investigation by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) and Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) which represents media publishers including Fox Studios, Disney and Time Warner.

Police seized 60 computer terminals and three servers containing 8TB of data including "hundred of thousands" of copyright movies, music and television shows.

AFACT director of operations Neil Gane said in a written statement the penalty was appropriate for the copyright infringement.