Kazaa Going to Court

msim writes "According to the The Sydney Morning Herald" Kazaa will be going to court after their appeal to the Federal Court was dismissed. The case will be going ahead on March 23rd"

Comments

Weird

[Pingular]

You can no longer download Kazaa, but the network seems fine. You can still download songs etc...

Re:Weird

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Kazaa does not use the Gnutella network, they use the FastTrack network. It is however similar to Gnutella, with no centralized server.

Site slashdotted

[Via_Patrino]

Site already slashdotted, some other news about the same subject:
Here and here

PS: The second link is heavier and probably will go down soon.

Site already slow... full text of article

[oldosadmin]

Kazaa fails to stall copyright case

March 4, 2004 - 6:05PM

Internet music company Kazaa has failed in its attempt to delay proceedings for alleged copyright breaches brought by the Australian record industry.

Federal Court Justice Murray Wilcox dismissed an application by the world's largest file sharing network to delay proceedings against it until a similar case in the United States was finalised.

Music Industry Piracy Investigation (MIPI), which is owned by Universal, Festival Mushroom Records, EMI Music, Sony Music, Warner Music Australia and BMG Australia, raided 12 premises on February 6 this year to collect evidence against Kazaa. MIPI general manager Michael Speck said the decision to allow proceedings to go ahead against Sharman Networks, Kazaa's owner in Australia, was a win for the record industry.

"This represents a massive victory for the copyright owners," he said outside the court.

"It's time for Kazaa to stop using delaying tactics and face the music."

The matter was adjourned until March 23.