Australia Music Industry Decries Kazaa
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Lawyers for Australia's recording industry branded the popular Kazaa file-swapping network "an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen" as they launched a court battle to shut down Kazaa's illegal activities.
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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 music industry has targeted 459 prolific &quot;uploaders&quot; in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the UK, who they accuse of illegally providing their music collections to others on online file-sharing networks.
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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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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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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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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 they
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Despite technical setbacks, the online business is stronger than ever Also: Kazaa loses its foothold as most popular music download site & hellip;. Sharp electronics moves away from U.S. market & hellip;. and more.
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Sharman Networks, the company behind the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing software, began its defense 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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The largest copyright infringement case in Australian history began yesterday (Nov. 29), as Sydney-based Sharman Networks and others involved with peer-to-peer software company Kazaa face 30 record-company
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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 they launched a court battle to shut down Kazaa&#39;s illegal
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Five record companies are suing Sharman Networks, creator of the file-swapping technology Kazaa, for music piracy in Australia&#39;s Federal Court.
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File-sharing is being seen as both a threat and an opportunity by the entertainment industry.
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M&#39;LEARNED FIENDS for the file sharing outfit Sharman Networks told the Australian District Court that Kazza should be allowed in Australia because it is legal in the US.
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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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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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The music industry redoubles its efforts to drop the hammer on college students who illegally download music, leaning on the universities for support. By the Associated Press.