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Webby's World[Webby's World] An Australian federal judge ruled Kazaa illegal. Now, hardly anyone uses Kazaa any more, as the RIAA, BPI and other record industry associations targeted that network in particular;

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http://www.jaffacake.net [Jaffa's Juicy Bits] Music Licensing & Royalties: Piracy on networks such as Napster and Kazaa became rifeand now other systems like Bit Torrent have taken over as the leader infile sharing piracy whilst other sites like

http://ashesinthefall.blogspot.com [You Forget So Easy.] RIAA’s annual report links piracy to ”˜TERRORISM’! ...: The RIAA claims that criminal rings are "becoming increasingly involved" in CD piracy and pirate manufacturers are "increasingly manufacturing" high-quality product. However, seeing as they don’t actually provide any statistics to back any of this up, it comes across as less of a report, and more of a concerted effort to scaremonger people into buying verified RIAA product.

Freedom-to-tinker.com[Freedom-to-tinker.com] Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Aussie Judge Tweaks Kazaa Design: Filtering will make Kazaa more cumbersome, but then so does the RIAA flooding the network with fake copies. The worst case scenario is that Kazaa becomes so encumbered that it basically dies and everyone just starts using some other filesharing tool.

P2p.weblogsinc.com[P2p.weblogsinc.com] The Peer-to-Peer Weblog - p2p.weblogsinc.com: Quick on the heels of reports that eDonkey was going out of business along with WinMX, then refutations that eDonkey was alive and well, company president Sam Yagan testified in a Senate committe hearing on the future of P2P, and declared his intent to comply with the RIAA’s cease-and-desist threats. ”Because the Grokster standard requires defining a company’s intent, the decision was essentially a call to litigate.

Bigblog.com[Bigblog.com] Search: RIAA sue em all conference @ Big Blog: yfarren writes "According to cdfreaks.com the RIAA has lost the case against the mother of a 13 year old girl accused of file-sharing violations." From the article: "The case was dismissed with prejudice, which prevents the case from being advanced against the defendant. Finally, the RIAA tried asking the Judge to amend the judgment in order to allow them to sue the child through a Guardian Ad Litem.

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