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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."
When the police show up to arrest the principals, all they have to do is flash a toothy grin and a packet of Mentos, the FreshMaker, and everything will be forgotten.
Hey, it works in Italy all the time.
explain the "unjust-ness" of this law to me.
Take this out of the "Slashdot, info/music wants to be free" world and explain to me how this law is unjust.
If you made music, you'd want to get paid for your effort, too...
Free software/music is a good ideal to strive for, but its unpractical in practice. You gotta put food on the table.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
KaZaa may be lucky enough to wiggle out of this one because of the prior court order. This is hardly them staring down The Man.
Politicians vote laws that the people who elected them deserve.
ahhhh....
but if more than 50% of all Rental users did, it may be different.
Its more than one person trading music here, it's many.
Peace, Love, Games
To correct my vague statement:
Because of the DMCAA, et al, KaZaa is an accomplist to the crime.
As I said, I do not necissarily agree with those laws, nor do I think that everyone on these systems are criminal. Only God knows if the people who wrote KaZaa intended it to be a "cool indie MP3 program" or a "file sharing program." (Grief, that was a pathetic attempt to distinguish if the writers wanted to trade legal, or illegal mp3s that they many not see as illegal.)
Hope this clears the point up some. IMHO, KaZaa isn't ethically guilty of being an accomplist unless they intended to trade files they knew they shouldn't. Legally, however, they're guilty and executable if an 8 year old finds Lords of Acid or 2 Live Crew... or a lawyer finds it. And that's the world we live in.
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We don't need no Net Explorer We don't need no Thought control
Yes.
This article talks a little bit about Colt's decision two years ago to stop making handguns for non-LEOs. Why? Because they were getting sued when their products were used criminally. Gun manufacturers are both persecuted and prosecuted when their products are used for criminal purposes.