Kazaa pays $100 mln to settle lawsuits
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The music and movie industries have  reached a legal settlement with their longtime antagonist  Kazaa, one of the world's best known file-sharing networks and  a once-popular source of illicit downloads.
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The Business Software Alliance collects out-of-court settlements from companies that violated copyright rules.
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&quot;The Kazaa system is an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen,&quot; declared the counsel for the music industry, Tony Bannon, during today&#39;s commencement of the civil trial against peer-to-peer (P2P) software distributor
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Hollywood movie studios have settled a copyright lawsuit against a Web site operator they say had helped people find pirated copies of films for download.
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Industry eyes are turning toward Oz as more than 50 lawyers begin waging a courtroom battle over Kazaa, the peer-to-peer technology owned by Australia-based Sharman Networks that touts some 60 million users worldwide.
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A woman in Milwaukee and her ex-boyfriend are under orders to pay thousands to the recording industry. A man in California refinanced his home to pay an $11,000 settlement...
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Apple Computer Inc.  said  it will pay $100 million for a license to use Creative  Technology Ltd.'s  patented technology in its  iPod music player, settling all legal disputes between the two  companies.
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A woman in Milwaukee and her ex-boyfriend are under orders to pay thousands to the recording industry. A man in California refinanced his home to pay an $11,000 settlement. A year after it began, the industry's legal campaign against Internet music piracy is inching through the federal courts, producing some unexpected twists.
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LOS ANGELES (IFPI) - The company and operators behind the Puretunes.com website, an online service which formerly sold unauthorized unlimited music downloads, have agreed to an out-of-court settlement of a copyright infringement lawsuit brought last year
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Satellite television provider EchoStar  Communications Corp. on Monday said it will pay $100 million to  settle a nine-year long legal battle over the retransmission of  distant TV stations to subscribers.
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Time Warner Inc. has reached a settlement deal with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) concerning accounting issues with its America Online Inc.
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AT&amp;T Corp., the largest US long- distance telephone company, agreed to pay $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that sought damages of $2.
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Sharman Networks, distributor of the software behind popular peer-to-peer service Kazaa, went on trial in Australia today, in the latest copyright battle between the music industry and file-sharing service providers.
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Sharman Networks, the company behind the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing software, began its defence in a Sydney court room on Tuesday against charges by members of the music industry that the company aided music piracy and copyright infringement.
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Apple Computer Inc. will pay $100 million to rival Creative Technology Ltd. to settle patent lawsuits over technology for navigating through songs on the popular iPod digital music player, the companies said Wednesday.
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According to wire reports Sharman Networks has added Internet-based phone calls to the popular file-sharing program Kazaa. Legal experts are quoted as saying that this may be a preemptive by Sharman Networks, which owns Kazaa, to legitimize the software.
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Officials with the Grokster  file-trading network have agreed to pay $500,000 to settle  charges they operated a separate music download service without  permission, a recording-industry trade group said on Monday.