Just onthe radio here in Sydney...
They've been found guilty and have been given 2 months to modify kazaa to allow only licenced material from their software
more to follow
Dandermouse
Is this real? How the hell will they do that?
Hard as ever and here to make you people believe...as long as there is one person to hold hope and dream...A GOD...will never die!
dunno,
check this out
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian court ruled on Monday that users of Kazaa, a popular internet music file-swapping system, breached music copyright and ordered its owners to modify the software.
Australian court rules Kazaa users breach copyright
Dandermouse
An Australian court ruled on Monday that users of Kazaa, a popular internet music file-swapping system, breached music copyright and ordered its owners to modify the software.
"The respondents authorised users to infringe the applicants' copyright in their sound recordings," Federal Court Judge Murray Wilcox said in his ruling.
Australia's major record companies sued Kazaa's Australian owners and developers, Sharman Networks, claiming Kazaa had cost them millions of dollars in lost sales.
The music industry told the court that Sharman Network licensed users to access a network it knew was being used for piracy and hence it was authorising people to infringe copyright.
Sharman Networks defended the use of the internet to download music tracks, but said it could not control the actions of estimated 100 million world-wide users.
source
http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/News...USIC-KAZAA.XML
It's about freakin time. No, not that the Great Satan won this case (as we all knew he would) but maybe we'll see fewer posts like "I just Installed kazza and everything I download is silent.
So will they only have to filter results for Australia? uh huh sure.
Thats some dazzling bullshit there. So they knew people were doing things they told them not to do. How is that authorising a damn thing. I guess now they'll move on to the next big app, maybe your favorite program or mine. I wonder how effective any of this will be.The music industry told the court that Sharman Network licensed users to access a network it knew was being used for piracy and hence it was authorising people to infringe copyright.
Hard as ever and here to make you people believe...as long as there is one person to hold hope and dream...A GOD...will never die!
Kind of like driving on I5 in California. Sure the speed limits 70 Miles per hour. But the only people doing the speed limit are those whose ages exceed it.Originally Posted by Mels_Smileys45
Basically, right or wrong the majority rules. You can stand on a podium and denounce evil but if the crowd you’re talking too is what you consider evil then you're the only one who looks like a fool.
well thats the last nail in kazaa coffin
Uh. . . .what about all the networks that connect to the fast track network? Urgent message going out through kazaa users urging them to upgrade?? or from now on, downloads would be modified.
hmmm... oh well.
if they allow only licensed content, does that mean that all the fakes will dissapear? :p
Kazaa sucked of course anyway.
I suppose that they will just go out of business and concentrate on Skype... they make that too? Because it's an amazingly GOOD program.
did they even did what grokster did, bring up the betamax case?
It's about time...Burn that Spy-ware fest to the ground...it's long over due.
It was awesome P2P prog in the begining...but the bastards turn it to money making machine full of Spy-ware.
It deserves to DIE.
Yeh....let it die!.
But if they were smart they would completely redo their software...serverless like they should have long ago.
OH....AND UPDATE YOUR HASHING!
but they are stupid...they should have done all that long ago.
This isn't the end of Kazaa....unfortunately. They are just banned from releasing it in Australia. This is just another judges retoric...trying to control something he can't....all the while taking kickbacks.
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Kazaa owners, users infringe copyright - judge
Australian Federal Court Judge Murray Wilcox has ruled that Kazaa owner Sharman Networks and its principals are guilty of copyright infringement.
Judge Wilcox declared that Sharman Networks Ltd, LEF Interactive Pty Ltd, Altnet Inc, Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc, Nicola Anne Hemming and Kevin Glen Bermeister "have infringed the copyright" of the 30 or so music labels and copyright owners who brought the case against them. Furthemore, he said, the defendants "authorised" Australian Kazaa users to "make a copy of the sound recordings" and to "communicate the recordings to the public".
"The files are shared without the approval of the relevant copyright owner," said the Judge in his summary of the case. "It follows that both the user who makes the file available and the user who downloads a copy infringes the owner’s copyright."
Judge Wilcox was unmoved by Kazaa's incorporation of "warnings against the sharing of copyright files", stating that "far from taking steps that are likely effectively to curtail copyright file-sharing, Sharman Networks and Altnet have included on the Kazaa website exhortations to users to increase their file-sharing".
He also noted the defendants had not "taken any action to implement... technical measures... that would enable the respondents to curtail – although probably not totally to prevent – the sharing of copyright files".
The defendants were banned from offering their P2P file-sharing systems in Australia until they modify the software essentially to exclude copyright works from searches. The modification must come in the form of a "non-optional key-word filtering technology", and the company must place "maximum pressure" on existing Kazaa users to upgrade to the modified version of the software. Sharman has a grace period of two months before it must comply with the order.
Read the Rest here:
http://www.theregister.com/2005/09/05/kazaa_verdict/
CAPITAL punishment for infringement is a CAPITAList's dream.
This isn't the end of Kazaa....unfortunately. They are just banned from releasing it in Australia. This is just another judges retoric...trying to control something he can't....all the while taking kickbacks.
True True!
One ruling will never change the course for that many stupid people
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Id rather it not die, since after they win this, they will go down to other networks.
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