A two-year acquittal from a contentious copyright bill demanded by the mobile operators has been knocked down by the Recording Industry Association. The mobile operators fear that the bill would cost them a millions of dollars in acquiescence.

With the Copyright Amendment Bill coming into force, there would be strict actions on the illegal download of files including movies and music. The bill could also expand its scope to downloading files through mobile broadband connections.

The bill should come into force in July, but it covers mobile networks after August 2013 or a date decided by the commerce minister, as expressed by commerce select committee. It added that with high cost and low speed of mobile broadband, there were negligible chances of copyright violations on mobile networks. The committee was concerned about the costs associated with copyright infringement that could surpass its benefits.

Campbell Smith, Chief Executive of Recording Industry Association said, "With the pace of technological development today, if you're delaying it for two years you might as well delay it for three lifetimes". He forbade agreeing to the copyright infringement claims made for music downloads that were widely prevalent over mobile connections and as such files are small, they font need a broadband connection to be downloaded.