Kazaa Going to Court

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 4, 2004 @05:34AM from the p2p-is-fun-for-me dept.

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"

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Say cheese! by garcia · 2004-03-04 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny

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

Oh please! Enough with the cheesy quotes already! It's almost as bad as the RIAA saying "Oops I did it again" after attempting to sue yet another innocent victim.
1. Re:Say cheese! by LostCluster · 2004-03-04 05:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Worst yet are the ones who plead guilty by saying "I'm not that innocent!"
2. Re:Say cheese! by dlosey · 2004-03-04 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Oh please! Enough with the cheesy quotes already! It's almost as bad as the RIAA saying "Oops I did it again" after attempting to sue yet another innocent victim.
  
  Instead they act like Micheal Jackson and go after 12 year old boys.
3. Re:Say cheese! by EmagGeek · 2004-03-04 05:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Believe me, having to face any kind of new music these days is punishment enough...
  
  "I hereby sentence you, Kazaa, to an eternity of having Britney Spears blasted into your ears"
  
  AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!
So... by Savatte · 2004-03-04 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny

will I be able to download the transcripts of these hearings on Kazaa?
1. Re:So... by Deflagro · 2004-03-04 05:41 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  You know that's not so much funny as it is interesting. They want to crack down on all this evil P2P stuff but, it CAN be used for legal means. I have a telephone but it doesn't mean I make prank calls all day long.
  
  I dunno, just liked the comment and have no mod points.
  
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2. Re:So... by turnstyle · 2004-03-04 05:49 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  "They want to crack down on all this evil P2P stuff but, it CAN be used for legal means. I have a telephone but it doesn't mean I make prank calls all day long."
  Most cases so far have upheld the "don't blame the technology" view, and I would tend to agree.
  However, following your own analogy, do you think that you should be held liable if you did make prank calls all day long?
  
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Going to Court? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-04 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny

I thought they lived there.
Kids by kc0re · 2004-03-04 05:41 · Score: 5, Interesting

I don't use Kazaa. I was one of the kids fined for downloading music off the internet, and guess what, I still am going to do it. In all seriousness.. I don't see how the RIAA can sue everyone, and besides for them to catch users of Kazaa, don't they have to use Kazaa themselves?
Now taking bets: RIAA vs. KAZAA! by DR+SoB · 2004-03-04 05:42 · Score: 5, Funny

If the RIAA makes it up to 10 lawsuits against providers of free downloadable music, my bookie is going to be pissed, he gave me 10-1 odds that it won't happen and I put $100 on the line! GO RIAA GO!!! (Yeah I know, that sounds evil, that's why I like it!)

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Fighting in two fronts by GuyMannDude · 2004-03-04 05:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

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.

This has got to be kind of tough. So Kazaa has to defend themselves against two recording industry associations simultaneously? I wonder if there was any agreement between the RIAA and the Australian counterpart to hit Kazaa at the same time. Hopefully Kazaa can use some of the work for one case in the other but still that's not too much fun to have to fight a two-front war. That takes resources and I wonder if Kazaa has enough to hold their own.

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Britney Spears blasted in my ears? by bad+enema · 2004-03-04 05:43 · Score: 5, Funny

It'll certainly take an eternity to get all the silicon out of my eardrumes.
What's the Big Deal? by finny · 2004-03-04 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Every Simpson's watcher knows that the most extreme punishment Austraila can dole out is "just a little kick in the bum"!
As Pepsi put it... by PeaceTank · 2004-03-04 05:47 · Score: 5, Interesting

Even if kazaa goes down, there is no way in the world that they are going to eliminate p2p. They live in a world of red tape and formalities. We just find ways to go around the system, and therefore, we're always a step ahead of them. Networks start blocking ports in schools and offices, we simply change the port we get it through (at least that's what we do at our school in our dorms) The RIAA starts tracking p2p transactions, we set up massive networks based on ant behavior (e.g. MUTE p2p). They take down one major p2p client, we'll set up 10 more. I think Pepsi and iTunes got it right in their commericial... "We're going to keep downloading music for free whether you like it or not..."
Copyright owners .. by BorgDrone · 2004-03-04 06:04 · Score: 5, Insightful
"This represents a massive victory for the copyright owners," he said outside the court.

And that's exactly the problem, the latest CD I bought says on the cover something like : Copyright(C) 2004 $RECORDLABEL instead of Copyright(C) 2004 $ARTIST.
They are always babbling about the artist not getting paid bla bla, while their only concern is their own bank account.

The fact is, tools like KaZaa have shown we don't need record companies anymore, and it has them scared shitless.
Regarding the artists not getting paid and this whining about how it 'hurts' music: there is no need to pay them for download music, for several reasons.
- Artists can earn money by performing (concerts and such), mp3's should be seen as advertising their trade. This happened all the time before the record companies stepped in, artists exchanged songs and travelled from city to city performing them in public, and getting paid for it.
- If you're in it just for the money, I really don't want to hear your music anyway. Art should be created for the love of the art, not for monetary gain. Paying 'super stars' exorbitant amounts of money hasn't done their music any good. Look at the great artists from the past, Van Gogh didn't have a pot to piss in. What are rappers going to do ? Switch from music about 'the hood' and how hard life is on the street to singing about why it sucks to pay several million in income taxes ?
- The only music that will die together with the record companies is 'produced' music. They won't be missed, really. My life would be just as complete without britney spears and the backstreet boys.
Re:Weird by FuzzyBad-Mofo · 2004-03-04 06:18 · Score: 5, Informative

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