Kazaa in Music Piracy Hot Seat
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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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The company that produced software called "Kazaa," which made it simple for millions of computer users to download music and movies over the Internet, has agreed to pay more than $115 million to the entertainment industry to settle global piracy lawsuits, the industry said Thursday.
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Lawyers for Australia&#39;s recording industry branded the popular Kazaa file-swapping network &quot;an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen&quot; as
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Lawyers for Australia&#39;s recording industry were launching a trial Monday against the owners of the popular file-swapping network Kazaa -- in the latest battle between copyright holders and computer users accused of music piracy.
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SYDNEY - Lawyers for the file-swapping service Kazaa argued in an Australian court yesterday that their software is analogous to the old Betamax videocassette recorders.
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Sharman Networks, parent company of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software Kazaa, is rejoicing at the US court ruling that found two similar P2P programs, Grokster and Morpheus, do not violate US copyright law. However, the company concedes that the ...
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The battle of file swapping networks seems to be repeating itself today as a host of music companies sue Kazaaâs owners Sharman Networks over copyright infringement.
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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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The European music industry today announced a major crackdown against file-sharing, the practice of sharing copyrighted songs over the internet using networks like Kazaa, with the filing of 459 suits against file-swappers, 28 of whom are British.
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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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LAWYERS FROM the Music industry are on the attack down under as they try to close the popular P2P software network Kazaa. An Australian federal court was told that the developers of file-swapping technology
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Kazaa has had a bumpy ride in the last couple of years. While it is dropping down usersâ popularity ratings (because of the high rate of bad files), it is high on the âpotential list of companies to sueâ of big music companies.
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p2pnet.net News:- âExpertâ witness Melbourne professor Leon Sterling, produced by Big Music in the Kazaa civil trial currently unfolding in Australia, apparently once offered to speak for Kazaa owner Sharman Networks.
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Sharman Networks - the company behind peer-to-peer file sharing outfit Kazaa - has denied it is able to block users who use the service to share child pornography.
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One of the big guns of the Wild West days of freely downloading music and movies over the Internet is going straight.
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In a copyright-infringement trial under way this week in an Australian federal court, music industry representatives say they plan to make public the secretive ownership structure of the Kazaa file-trading network. By Patrick Gray.
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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.