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Kazaa Forced To Modify Search Engine

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the can't-find-that-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Eminem, Madonna and Kylie Minogue are just some of the popular artists whose songs are to be blocked from being illegally distributed on the peer-to-peer network Kazaa following Federal Court orders in Australia yesterday. Sharman Networks, the owner of Kazaa, was ordered by the courts to modify the file-sharing software to block a list of search terms -- primarily artist and song names. The search terms are also to be supplied by record companies. The directive follows the record companies' court victory in September against individuals and organizations associated with Kazaa."

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  1. batman by killerface · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Another fine product from Wayne Enterprises Military Division

  2. Popular music for the hurd baa baa by davro · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Eminem -> Damn wheres my muther sucking lawyer
    Lawyer -> Hello Eminem whats up today.
    Eminem -> Im being llegally distributed, surly this is an Eminem Domain.
    Lawyer -> You mean Eminent domain ?
    Eminem -> Suck you man i will set 50 pence on you

  3. Re:what next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What are you talking about? Whether record companies are for-profit corporations or not, downloading and uploading copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder is illegal. It is theft. You act like this is a step closer to 1984 when it amounts to enforcing anti-theft laws. If things like property and money bother you, move to Cuba or North Korea.

  4. Re:Eminem, Madonna and Kylie Minogue by geminidomino · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I tend to assume that any good songs Eminem, Madonna, or Kylie Minogue I've already downloaded.

    Hey, me too!

    bash-3.00$ echo `for I in Eminem Madonna Kylie; do find ~/mp3 -iname "*$I*"; done` | wc
    0 0 0

    Imagine that.