Kazaa site becomes legal service
File-sharing site Kazaa will become a legal music download service following a series of high profile legal battles.
The peer-to-peer network has also agreed to pay $100m (£53m) in damages to the record industry.
The announcement follows the release of a music industry report that says more than 20 billion music tracks have been downloaded illegally in [...]
3 in R.I. charged with online piracy
In February, someone from the recording industry began calling Stephen and Patricia Hereth’s house in Pawtucket, accusing them of violating copyright laws by downloading music and sharing it with other people.
The caller offered to settle the matter for $4,600. “I thought it was a scam, to be honest with you,” Patricia Hereth said yesterday. “I [...]
Kazaa, Skype, and now “The Venice Project”
Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the pioneering Web applications Kazaa and Skype, are working on a new communications venture, BusinessWeek.com has learned. The pair plans to develop [...]
Kazaa parent pulls lawsuit against P2P site
Sharman Networks – the operator of Kazaa.com – has backed out of an unusual lawsuit against a pro P2P technology site, although its CEO is still banging on with her case.
P2Pnet.net owner Jon Newton today posted a court document revealing that Sharman Networks has “discontinued” it actions against Newton, his ISP Interserver and four people [...]
Kazaa’s P2P libel suit threatens to mute Canadians
A fresh lawsuit making its way through Canadian courts threatens to result in severe restrictions being placed on what internet users can post to message boards. It just might enhance corporate abilities to strong-arm ISPs and authors, too.
In a strange new turn of events in the Kazaa saga, Sharman Networks and its CEO, Nikki Hemming, [...]
StreamCast files RICO suit against Skype, KaZaA, and everyone inbetween
Anyone can sue anybody, and a lawsuit does not imply guilt but I’ve been informed that in documents fled in the U.S. District Court’s CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA (Western Division – Los Angeles) CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 2:06-cv-00391-FMC-E that back on January 20th StreamCast Networks, best known for their Peer to Peer technology, called [...]
