When Music Industry Piracy Investigations -- the music industry's anti-piracy unit -- obtained several legal orders last week allowing them to search premises for evidence associated with alleged copyright-infringing activities , its manager, Michael Speck, told ZDNet Australia the issue was a simple case of copyright infringement, and that if Sharman Networks stopped allowing copyright-infringing files to be traded via Kazaa the record companies would stop the lawsuit.
However, "the Kazaa application is not able to monitor files that users of the software exchange with each other," said Sharman Networks in a statement to ZDNet Australia . "Kazaa has a fully decentralised architecture, which allows users to share material directly with each other. This is what gives P2P, or distributed computing, its unique efficiency. Users of the software are responsible for ensuring that when they share material, they respect copyrights, just as are users of e-mail, photocopying machines, CD burners, and a raft of other copying technologies."
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