Kazaa Outed Over 'Trust Fund' for Red Cross

danwarne writes "In one of the most bizarre twists in the court action against Kazaa yet, documents have been tendered in Australian Federal Court court that showed that Kazaa claimed to have set up a trust fund for donations to the Red Cross (at about the time the tsunami hit), but the Red Cross has confirmed in writing it has never heard from them about it. The music industry alleged in court that it was a tactic by Kazaa parent company Sharman Networks to park money out of the reach of the music industry if it loses the case and is left with a huge damages bill. This in the same week that it came out in court that top Sharman/BDE execs offloaded their multi-million dollar homes. Sounds like Kazaa's lawyers might be telling them to prepare for the worst..."

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Article's Site: sketchy?

[The Amazing Fish Boy]

The site is hosted on "ninemMSN.com.au"

I can't find any reference to Microsoft owning it. nineMSN just seems to link to some MS services (Hotmail, MSN, etc.)

About page (below) reveals no connection, though mentions Hotmail and other services.

http://mediacentre.ninemsn.com.au/med iacentre/about.aspx

Whois:

$ whois ninemsn.co.uk

Domain Name:
ninemsn.co.uk

Registrant:
Chris Kolle

Registrant's Address:
32 Vaniki Way
Westvale
3867
AU

Registrant's Agent:
eNom, Inc [Tag = ENOM]
URL: http://www.enom.com

Relevant Dates:
Registered on: 20-Jul-2004
Renewal Date: 20-Jul-2006
Last updated: 30-Jul-2004

Registration Status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers listed in order:
ns1.sedoparking.com 217.160.95.94
ns2.sedoparking.com 217.160.141.42

WHOIS database last updated at 09:45:01 13-Mar-2005

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iBook:~ kevinosb$ whois ninemsn.com.au
Domain Name: ninemsn.com.au
Last Modified: 06-Jul-2004 01:27:28 UTC
Registrar ID: R00010-AR
Registrar Name: Melbourne IT
Status: OK

Registrant: NineMSN Pty Limited
Registrant ID: OTHER 077 753 461

Registrant ROID: C1106072-AR
Registrant Contact Name: Richard Ang
Registrant Email: richard@ninemsn.com.au

Tech ID: C1474273-AR
Tech Name: Hostworks Hostmaster
Tech Email: hostmaster@hostworks.com.au

Name Server: ns2.hostworks.net.au
Name Server IP: 202.58.32.2
Name Server: dns0.optus.net.au
Name Server IP: 202.139.83.3
Name Server: ns1.telstra.net
Name Server: ns1.hostworks.net.au
Name Server IP: 202.58.32.1

Re:Psychic con-artists could have saved 200000+ li

[Doc Ruby]

Does your comment have anything to do with the Supreme Court case in which Kazaa's liability for illegitimate use of their software is being decided this month?