KaZaa Ignores Court Order to Shut Down

An anonymous reader submitted that "The Amsterdam district court ruled two weeks ago that the KaZaa P2P program is acting unlawfully by making software available that allows users to download music files and must shut down. The court gave the company 14 days to do this or face $40,000 US a day in fines. KaZaa has chosen to ignore the shutdown order."

Comments

Damn the man!!

[Bonker]

Whoohoo!

One wonders what's going to happen when the legion of black-robed LEO ninjas descend en masse to phsyically shut down Kazaa, however.

Actually, all it would take is a court order and a guy with a pair of diagonal cutters at their backbone connection's origin.

Still, it's nice to see that even companies are beginning to realized how screwed and skewed copyright law is.

Damn. Another one.

[Qwerpafw]

It really ticks me off every time courts crack down on music sharing. Heck, what some people use it for may be illegal (okay, most people) but the programs have legitamate uses.

I, for one, used a P2P program some time ago to get all my LP songs as MP3s... much much cheaper than buying a new turntable, software, etc...

The DMCA is just stupid. That a company (or a person, like Dmitri Skylakarov) can be sued because someone uses their product or research in illegal ways is just plain anal.

For an interesting comparison, take guns and cars. Guns are often used illegally, yet that is not their only use... nobody persecutes gun manufacturers ("Guns dont kill people... people do") Cars also kill people all the time or are used to ccommit crimes all the time. Yet we dont sue Ford for hit-and-run incidents.

Lets say someone bought a car... and a gun. Then they pulled up in front of a bank, and used these two pieces of equipment to ROB THE BANK!!!!! Would we sue Ford, inc, and Colt, inc?? No! we would go after the culprits, and let the manufacterers get away, because ITS NOT THEIR FAULT.

The DMCA is just stupid, because it takes the opposite approach.
True, their is a differecnce b/w cars and P2P software... you own your car. the manufacturer doesnt have to worry about you. with P2P software, you only own a licence... like if enterprise-rent-a-car owned the bank robbery vehicle. Since the company still owns the software, they can be obliged to makee sure that its not used in illegal ways... i just still think its unfair.

Bah. We all know, deep down, that the reason the DMCA et ect exists is because of lobbying $$ spent on the part of the RIAA and their equivalent for video...

Re:Damn. Another one.

[istartedi]

Guns are often used illegally, yet that is not their only use... nobody persecutes gun manufacturers

Where have you been? Brady bill, one month rule, waiting period, mandatory trigger lock, country-of-origin regulations on some components, many types totally outlawed, lawsuits brought by idiots and not thrown out by the judge, the list goes on...

Now, I'm not suggesting that we go back to the days of people walking into Virginia gun shops, buying 2 dozen cheap handguns and then driving them up 95 to be sold on the streets of NYC. However, the idea of a mandatory trigger lock is ridiculous. It's even more silly to sue the company because you were irresponsable enough to leave your gun lying around with your kids or because some other guy was evil enough to shoot you.

Re:and they don't like mozilla ;) !

[SoftwareJanitor]

It seems to work O.K. with Konqueror.

Re:KaZaa -- what's in a name?

[rebug]

Like Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes a cigar is a phallus, and sometimes you want to bonk your mother.

Freud was a pretty messed up guy.

WHAT??

[theluckman]

I choose to ignore this /. story.

If you're smart, you'll choose to ignore this post.

Why not just move?

[ackthpt]

Why not just move to Sealand?

if you're interested

[CptnHarlock]

Kazaa is an old word for cat. It's in some ancient european/german language. I can't find the reference but some good KH can surely make a nice google search. I guess they were reffering to napster in a way. Also Kazaa was formely Opennap for those of you who didn't know. Hmm.. or was it music city, I don't remeber anymore. anyway they begun as a part of the opennap network and when napster died - they florished. Whan they die someone else will take over ad infinitum.. or at least untill the RIAA gives up or we all are dead.. whichever comes first.. sorry for the fuzzyness I'm tired.. :) ..

Re:For the "too lazy to click links" crowd:

[jandrese]

Re: Netscape

You certainly lived in a different world than I did back then. Netscape of the time was buggy and slow (and a real memory pig by the standards of the day). It also had a bunch of not quite standard standards and dubious features (blink for instance).

Then IE came along and did exactly the same thing, except IE was free (even though nobody ever actually paid for Netscape) and got bundled with the OS to insure market success.