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[p2p networks] Kazaa, Direct Revenue, deal: And it’s interesting that just as new Direct Revenue ceo Jean Philippe Maheu tries to clean up the company’s seriously tarnished image, he also chooses to get into bed with Sharman which an Australian court decided must stop “authorising Kazaa users to breach copyright and that modifications be made to future technology to reduce copyright infringement,” as professor Ed Felten phrased it.

[Welcome to Leigh's *space*] Wow, first entry in a few days!: Last night I read a whole heap of information about Nikki Hemming whois the Australian chick who owns KaZaa. Well, she doesn't actually ownKaZaa, she owns the company that runs KaZaa as far as I know, KaZaa isowned by a company called Sharman Networks who have no employees andthis company contracts Hemming's company to run Sharman therefore torun the KaZaa network.

[Jaani.net | Cyberlaw and technology news and analysis.] Clayton Utz Lawyers Accused of Witness Coaching in Kazaa Trial: Suggesting that it had less control would advantage the defendant in two ways: first, by distancing the conduct of KaZaa’s users from the developer and distributor of the software; and second, by suggesting that Sharman could not be seen as authorising or encouraging users to transfer copyrighted materials since they were incapable of filtering them:

 [Blast Radius] They should release a benefit CD: In what can only be taken as a sign that the Australian music industry is about to get tough on filesharers (rubbing its hands with glee at the money to be made off the parents of P2P-using teens), ARIA has thrown together a press release condemning file sharing, and got some Australian bands to sign it. Let's go over the reasons why ARIA should stick to dealing with music, or at least get someone with a tiny bit of technical savvy to proofread their press releases.

 [Planet Rhodes - Alumni] Lunda Wright: Australia deals legal blow to file-sharing: In the recent case of Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v Sharman License Holdings Ltd 2005 FCA 1242 (summary) the Australian Federal Court ordered that future versions of Kazaa practically assist in the protection of copyrighted media. With 317 million people having downloaded Kazaa already

[P2p.weblogsinc.com] KaZaA Decisively Loses Australian Case - The Peer-to-Peer Weblog ...: (i) despite the fact that the Kazaa website contains warnings against the sharing of copyright files, and an end user licence agreement under which users are made to agree not to infringe copyright, it has long been obvious that those measures are ineffective to prevent, or even substantially to curtail, copyright infringements by users. The respondents have long known that the Kazaa system is widely used for the sharing of copyright files;

 [Wired.com] Wired 11.02: The Race to Kill Kazaa: Days later, the company was reborn with a structure as decentralized as Kazaa's peer-to-peer service itself. Zennström, a Swedish citizen, transferred control of the software's code to Blastoise, a strangely crafted company with operations off the coast of Britain - on a remote island renowned as a tax haven - and in Estonia, a notorious safe harbor for intellectual property pirates.

 [Weatherall.blogspot.com] Weatherall's Law: I think it is Wilcox J’s attempt to avoid ongoing supervision, by setting out a practical way that the Kazaa network can continue to operate without being liable for contempt of court. I take David's point, which is of course 'backed up' by the fact that the judge did not accept every step or action that the copyright owners wanted Kazaa to take - he has singled out just two as things they must do (he did not, on the other hand, suggest that Kazaa start taking down full identity details of its users for the purposes of future prosecution, nor did he accept that Kazaa should bring legal action to enforce its End User License Agreement).

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