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KaZaa Ignores Court Order to Shut Down

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that-takes-balls dept.

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."

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  1. Not civil disobedience by SumDeusExMachina · · Score: 4, Redundant

    As you can tell by reading the article, and as you certainly wouldn't be led to believe by reading CmdrTaco's summary, they are refusing to shut down in order to comply with a previous court order. This is more a case of conflicting orders in the judicial system than anything else.

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  2. For the "too lazy to click links" crowd: by Xzzy · · Score: 3, Redundant

    They're not really ignoring the order, as presented in the news post.

    More like they're trying to squirm out of the deal by either claiming they can't shut it down (being de-centralized and all that), or that doing so would violate previous court orders. They're not ignoring by any means, they're attempting to squirm.

    Redundant, probably, but it's posted with the intent of staving off some of the "woohoo stick it to the man!" posts.

  3. What next? by icemind · · Score: 2, Redundant
    "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."


    So next up are they going to order Washington University to shut down for making wu-ftpd available? That's software that lets people download music files too.

    - icemind