The number of "Skynet" rulings issued by the Copyright Tribunal has hit double figures.

The tribunal yesterday announced it had made awards against two internet users totalling $1718 for allegedly pirating music using file-sharing software.

A Justice Ministry spokesman said a tenth ruling had been made by the tribunal and would be released in a few days. An eleventh ruling was likely to be released next week and a further 14 cases were pending, he said.

There had been an apparent lull in enforcement activity since April, when the tribunal heard the seventh copyright complaint laid by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand under the controversial "three strikes" law.

But a spokesman for the association, which represents record labels and has since been rebranded Recorded Music NZ, confirmed earlier in the week that it was not letting up.

In the latest rulings from the tribunal, a Slingshot customer was ordered to pay Record Music NZ $803.62 for the piracy of With Your Love by Cher Lloyd and Who You Are by Jessie J.

Her daughter had downloaded a "couple of songs" using file-sharing protocol uTorrent but did not realise it was illegal, she said.

She said she had not received the necessary two warnings before the third and final "enforcement notice" was issued on behalf of Recorded Music NZ.

But the tribunal said it did not regard her denial that she received the infringement notices as plausible and she had been "vague about the extent of the infringing file-sharing which has taken place".

Recorded Music NZ had sought a $4419 penalty.

In the other new ruling, a $914.35 award was issued against an internet user for repeatedly making It Girl by Jason Derulo available for upload using BitTorrent software.