Feb 2 2005

Confidential Kazaa Documents Revealed in Court

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It appears that Sharman Networks has suffered a setback in its ongoing litigation with the Australian music industry. Ok, painting Sharmam’s legal situation with such a broad term may not reflect the entire situation. Specifically, Sharman Networks this week suffered a very embarrassing setback against the music industry.

According to a court reporter from Apgmag.com, Sharman Networks and Altnet attempted to preserve the confidentiality of 30 documents. These documents included contracts, emails and very revealing internal memos. While the legal contracts between Sharman and Altnet are fairly standard, the internal manifesto written by CTO Phil Morle clearly indicates that Kazaa was in serious trouble from its competition.

FastTrack, the network that Kazaa connects to, is terribly outdated compared to eDonkey2000 or BitTorrent. FastTrack’s file-identifying (hashing), searching, network architecture and Windows-only nature makes it an easy target for competitors. Although the P2P community has long recognized this, few knew Sharman Networks’ CTO Phil Morle readily admitted to this.

Read the complete story @ Slyck

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