Technology ; Kazaa talked to record firms about music swaps ...
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Technology News, SYDNEY, Kazaa, the world&#39;s most popular Internet file-swapping system, told a court on Thursday it was worried about users exchanging unauthorised files and held talks with record companies in the United States about the problem.
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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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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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Then charges back out again The world's biggest record label is touting a scheme that would permit internet users to swap DRM-free music under a blanket license, according to a report. Universal Music Group's "TotalMusic" program would allow customers of ISPs who signed up to the program to exchange files freely - but only if the ISP signed up.â¦
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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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By MIKE CORDER    SYDNEY, Australia  -- The distributor of file-swapping giant Kazaa on Friday welcomed a U.S. court's ruling that two of its rivals are not legally liable for the songs, movies and other copyright works shared online by their users...
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THE developers of file-swapping technology Kazaa had produced the biggest music piracy system yet, the Federal Court was told today.
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Say what you want about the recording industry's take-no-prisoners approach to combating online piracy.  At least when the music czars go after someone, they target persons suspected of trading hundreds or thousands of copyrighted songs over the Internet.
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"Clean up your networks" Midem You don't need to be a Kremlinologist to detect the latest shift from the sound recordings industry. In its digital music report this week, the IFPI, the international trade group for recordings owners, there's scarcely a mention of the roaring "success" of its litigation against file-sharers. Instead the focus is squarely on getting the service providers to clean up their networks.â¦
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In the latest proof that the label is at least testing DRM-free music sales, consumers can buy gift cards from physical stores and redeem digital albums online. The bad news is that the music is also "anonymously watermarked."
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If the Digital Watermarking Alliance has its way, record labels will let their songs be sold as MP3s with embedded watermarks to track the songs in the open seas of the internet. In Listening Post.
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Technologies that let people record satellite and Internet radio broadcasts digitally are opening a new front in the recording industry's war on music piracy. This has given the music industry a new problem to worry about.
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Kazaa's long-standing position as the most popular online file-sharing software appears to be over. Last month, the daily average of file-swappers on the FastTrack peer-to-peer network, which includes Kazaa and related programs, was surpassed for the first time by users on the eDonkey/Overnet network, according to online tracking firm BayTSP Inc.
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KaZaa is still finding themselves in court, explaining what&#39;s going on, and Hollywood is already finding a new target: BitTorrent.
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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, is no different from video recorders as they launched their defence in a landmark music
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Yahoo is reportedly in talks with major labels about a DRM-free music store. to offer them either for sale or for free in an ad-supported model.
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Say what you want about the recording industry&#39;s take-no-prisoners approach to combating online piracy. At least when the music czars go after someone, they target persons suspected of trading