Kazaa case starts in Australia
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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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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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Major record labels are suing the firm behind Kazaa, the internet&#39;s most-used file-swapping software. Sharman Networks, a firm based in Australia but registered in the Pacific island state of Vanuatu, is being
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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 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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Two of the netâs most widely used programs, Kazaa - a peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing application â-nd Skype â -2P internet phone application, have teamed up.
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Setting aside Sharman Networks&#39; objections, an Australian judge accepted last Friday an affidavit with potentially damaging assertions about Kazaa&#39;s handling of copyrighted material.
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SYDNEY: Kazaa, the world&#39;s most popular internet file-swapping system, told a court yesterday 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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An Australian song-share website which offered links to music download sites was dubbed one of the world's largest copyright infringers in a landmark 500 million Australian dollar (374 million US) case.
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Hong Kong authorities have made their first arrest for allegedly sharing copyrighted files over the Internet, a spokeswoman said.
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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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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 first Australians charged after a huge child pornography crackdown appeared in court on Friday, as police warned further arrests were likely.
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A teacher set up a hidden video camera in a girls&#39; school change room, a court heard, as police predicted more than 500 people could be charged in Australia&#39;s biggest child porn crackdown.
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The music industry on Monday launched a test case against Kazaa, one of the world&#39;s largest file-sharing websites, in a bid to stem rampant internet piracy.
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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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&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