Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Industry News] Industry Resources - construction tools: It seems the recording industry is taking this obsession with having its own paramilitary force a bit too far. Apparently, after being allowed to raid Kazaa’s offices and the homes of various executives by themselves, the industry’s own police force felt that Sharman Networks CEO Nikki Hemming wasn’t being entirely forthcoming with them —

[Industry News] Industry News - house construction: Apparently, after being allowed to raid Kazaa’s offices and the homes of various executives by themselves, the industry’s own police force felt that Sharman Networks CEO Nikki Hemming wasn’t being entirely forthcoming with them — so they started a twenty-four hours a day surveillance program for “several months,”

 [Blast Radius] They should release a benefit CD: That, more than the trading which occurred via Kazaa, is what sealed the case. While we're on the point, I should mention that I support the ruling, since Kazaa shouldn't have been bloody stupid enough to try to profit from the service.

[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.

 [News.com.com] Australian court rules against Kazaa | CNET News.com: Justice Murray Wilcox of Australia's Federal Court ruled largely in favor of music labels, including Universal, Sony, Warner and Festival Mushroom, which had argued that the Kazaa software--owned by Australian-based Sharman Networks--was used to undertake copyright infringement on a massive scale. The labels had also targeted United States-based Altnet, which provides a search technology for Kazaa and is a close partner of Sharman.

 [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).

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Kazaa, Filesharing Review