A Sydney court has given file-sharing network Kazaa until December 5 to either filter copyrighted music from its system or shut down, music industry officials say.
The imposition of the deadline follows a court ruling in September that Kazaa users were breaching copyright and that the network’s owners had to modify the software.
Other global peer-to-peer (P2P) services, which distribute data between users instead of relying on a central server, also have come under fire from courts in recent months.
Kazaa’s operators, Sharman Networks, had appealed the judgment but according to music industry trade group IFPI, the court said that to avoid complete shutdown Kazaa must, as a first step, put in place a keyword filter system within 10 days.
Sharman Networks had said it could not control the actions of an estimated 100 million users.
