Accusations Fly as Kazaa Piracy Trial Opens
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Kazaa is &quot;an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen,&quot; charge solicitors in Australia. The goal of the record company lawyers is to have Sharman Networks -- Kazaa&#39;s owners -- declared
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THE firm behind leading file-swapping network Kazaa is being sued by the record industry in the latest round of a fight over copyright.
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The Federal Court in Sydney has been told the creators of the popular file-sharing software, Kazaa, cannot be held responsible if people use it to illegally swap music files.
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Kazaa has been branded the world&#39;s biggest &quot;copyright piracy engine&quot; by five record labels which today launched a legal case against Sharman Networks, the company behind the internet file-swapping website.
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The file swapping software Kazaa has legitimate uses claims the defence in the landmark trial in Australia of the controversial peer to peer program.
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Setting aside Sharman Networks&#39; objections, an Australian judge accepted on Friday an affidavit with potentially damaging assertions about Kazaa&#39;s handling of copyrighted material.
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Internal documents made public in an Australian court indicate that it's not just consumers who are often annoyed by programs that install with the Kazaa file-swapping software.
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Lawyers for Australia's recording industry branded the popular Kazaa computer file-swapping network "an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen" as they launched a court battle Monday to shut down its activities.
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A witness in the ongoing civil trial against peer-to-peer software provider Sharman Networks has added weight to testimony that logs can be maintained to trace users who are exchanging unlicensed music online using the Kazaa software.
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The proprietors of the P2P file-sharing program LimeWire, who were sued last August by a coalition of the major names in the recording industry, has filed a countersuit in the U.S. District Court in New York, claiming that the RIAA is using its copyrights over recorded works as a weapon.
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Sharman Networks was able to filter Kazaa to prevent copyright infringement, but instead chose to build a massive user base for advertising revenue, the Federal Court heard on day one of the peer-to-peer provider&#39;s widely-anticipated trial.
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The owners of file-swapping giant Kazaa claimed Tuesday their software, which allows users to exchange copyrighted music and movies online, doesn't differ from video recorders, as they launched their defense in a landmark music piracy case in Australia.
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An international music industry group said Thursday hundreds of lawsuits were being filed across Europe accusing people of piracy for illegally sharing music on the Internet.
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Philip Corwin has one of the least enviable jobs in Washington, DC: He defends file-swapping networks. That&#39;s not a trivial task for Corwin, the lobbyist for Kazaa&#39;s parent company.
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Kazaa is responsible for more downloading of illegal copies of songs than any other service, according to the five recording companies who brought suit against its parent company, Sharman Networks, in an Australian court.
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As an Australian court considers whether Kazaa&#39;s parent company should be forced to pay damages for the file sharing that goes on over its peer-to-peer (P2P) network, questions persist about
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The firm behind Kazaa is being sued by the record industry in the latest round of a fight over copyright. Lawyers in Australia branded the online software network &quot;an engine of copyright piracy