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Kazaa Sues Record Labels

Posted by simoniker on from the litigation-fun-for-everyone dept.

dannyp writes "CNN is reporting that Kazaa is suing the record companies, claiming that they used an illegal client to log in to the P2P network - an interesting twist." The lawsuit also claims "...efforts to combat piracy on Kazaa violated terms for using the network."

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  1. Re:Legality by HuffMeister · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's some weird language in the DMCA that enables the RIAA to directly subpoena suspected infringers' information from their ISP. Supposedly, it only takes a court clerk signature... Not even a judge has to review the subpoena...

  2. Re:A Solution from the Dark Side by way2trivial · · Score: 4, Informative
    read the kazaa lite eula, it's specified.

    you may not use the service to collect personally identifiable information about users.

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  3. Just get informed. by Pius+II. · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean Morpheus. They were based on the FastTrack network and then changed to Gnutella. Using Gnucleus, IIRC.
    Kazaa OTOH still use the FastTrack network. This network runs over centralized servers, so a third party client could indeed be "stealing" their resources.

  4. Re:Suddenly by Monkelectric · · Score: 4, Informative
    Legal code and computer code have a lot in common

    I know you're kidding, but there's a book about the subject written by slashdots patron saint, lawrence lessig, Code and Other Lws of Cyberspace

    I bought it when it came out and stayed up all night reading it... not groundbreaking material but alot to think about, and defiantley worth 12$

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