Kazaa to fold.... But will this stop the network???

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Kazaa to fold.... But will this stop the network??? Part One

Music swapping firm to fold under weight of lawsuits

(05-22) 16:34 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) --

Kazaa, the company behind a popular file-swapping Web site, said it will fold because it cannot afford to defend itself against copyright infringement charges brought by the major studios and labels.

The Dutch company maintains it has not violated any copyright laws by enabling customers to copy and share music and movie files by computer. But Kazaa lawyers said Friday that the firm cannot afford to defend the charges.

"Plaintiffs have engaged in Rambo-style litigation," Kazaa said in a court filing Friday, complaining that the studios and labels are using hardball legal tactics to squash it.

The collapse of Kazaa, however, is not expected to slow trading activity on the company's network, one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world. Kazaa said it has sold the network to another firm that the music and film industry has not sued yet.

The Web site and the software behind it are now owned by a privately held firm called Sharman Networks, based in Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific.

Lawyers for the seven major Hollywood studios and five major record companies and music publishers said Kazaa is playing a corporate "shell game" to dodge responsibility.

They contend that Kazaa's two founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, continue to be involved in the operation of the Web site and made substantial money from the sale.

source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/05/22/financial1929EDT0213.DTL
 
Again we see another company with good ideas, such as delivering revenue from file swapping directly to artists, fold under the might of the evil empire that is the RIAA.

When will this evil empire come to an end?

More menacing than the Daleks....

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"My Daleks Shall Once more become Triumphant!" - Davros.

More insidious than the Ordos....

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http://westwood.ea.com/games/emperor/

Greedier than J.R Ewing....

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Who are they? The RIAA. The clearest and best example of capitalist greed this side of the 21st Century. (Well, maybe the 2nd best......)


They should team up with Microsoft (the best example of capitalist greed) and really become The Borg!!!

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the central plexus: http://www.startrek.com/library/borg/techno/centralplexus.asp

The collapse of Kazaa, however, is not expected to slow trading activity on the company's network, one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world. Kazaa said it has sold the network to another firm that the music and film industry has not sued yet.

source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/05/22/financial1929EDT0213.DTL

This is now, as far as I am aware, the second time that this has happened. How long can it go on? How long can my beloved Kazaa network endure???



RIAA HOME PAGE HERE: http://www.riaa.org/index.cfm
 
Just my theory.....

Methinks there is a consortium of companies, running Kazaa.. who pass the buck to another member each time one is sued by the RIAA.... in the end, no one can be defeated in court..... One always takes up the mantle.....

Just my theory... :) ;)
 
Originally posted by Phantasm66
Just my theory.....

Methinks there is a consortium of companies, running Kazaa.. who back the buck to another member each time one is sued by the RIAA.... in the end, no one can be defeated in court..... One always takes up the mantle.....

Just my theory... :) ;)

It's about time some people stood up to the RIAA. They can't always have their way.
 
Let Peer to Peer file sharing prevail! Don't you lamerz understand>!>!>! Its the entertainment format of the 21st century! Get real you can't fight it!

When people watch TV in a hundread years, they will be getting their programs downloaded from their neighbour's box next door.... Its the way its meant to be.....

Soon everyone shall be on one large peer to peer file sharing network... it shall be part of the next tcp/ip stack.... you can't stop it so start living with it!!!

I receive a hundred god damn spams in my mail box every day! its that enough???!?! For that alone I should at least be able to get the top 10 singles free on mp3 each week.

I am in the business, currently, of setting up my own file sharing server, just so when I download a cool mp3, or a good movie, I share it with the rest of the internet 24/7

I would gladly pay my £10 a month, if it meant that I could guilt freely, and legally, download whatever song or movie I wanted, and burn it to CD, that i knew that that money was going to the people who made that movie, or sang that song.....

that £1 was going to viacom for that "Enterprise" episode I downloaded and burned to CD.....

....that that £2 was going to Massive Attack themselves for that track I made part of my MP3 disk 24.....
 
Calif. Lawmaker Calls For P2P Vigilantism
By Michael Singer June 26, 2002
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/10862_1377581
Fed up with illegal file sharing over peer-to-peer networks like Morpheus and KaZaA, U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman (DemocRAT-Mission Hills, CA) is putting the final touches on a bill he says should help curb copyright infringement.

Berman's proposed legislation calls for a myriad of measures including stronger digital rights management laws, lawsuits by copyright owners, and prosecutions against the most gregarious infringers. Additionally he calls for "technological self-help measures" including redirection, decoys, spoofing and file blocking.

While Napster-like companies have levied no formal protests at this point, the bill has caught the attention of Franklin, Tenn.-based StreamCast Networks, which complains that Berman is basically calling for vigilantism over P2P networks.

The proposed bill comes on the heels of other copyright protection legislation such as the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act proposed by Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (DemocRAT-S.C.)

Got News? > Protecting fair-use rights in the digital world
http://www.3dspotlight.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=895
 
Originally posted by uncleel
Got News? > Protecting fair-use rights in the digital world
http://www.3dspotlight.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=895

What Hollings' Bill Would Do
wired.com/news By Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51275,00.html
WASHINGTON -- If Hollywood and the music industry get their way, new software and hardware will sport embedded copy protection technology.

A bill introduced by Senate Commerce Chairman Fritz Hollings would prohibit the sale or distribution of nearly any technology -- unless it features copy-protection standards to be set by the federal government.
 
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