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  • Kazaa: The real winner?

    Full coverage of the Kazaa trial in Sydney. Also: Sharman Networks, others set to appeal in 2006.

  • Music industry claims Kazaa win

    The Federal Court of Australia has dealt a heavy blow to the managers of peer-to-peer software Kazaa, finding they had authorised users to infringe music industry copyright and directing them to modify the application to reduce the practice.

  • Record companies claim Sharman in contempt

    Record companies have started contempt proceedings against Sharman Networks over the company's failure to meet a Federal Court deadline to comply with an assets disclosure order.

  • Sharman to appeal while record labels celebrate

    Sharman Networks has announced it will appeal a Federal Court ruling that several respondents associated with the company had authorised infringement of music industry copyright and that it must introduce filters to the Kazaa file-sharing software.

  • Kazaa, Morpheus legal case collapsing

    The companies behind such popular file-swapping software are feeling the financial strain of fighting entertainment giants in court, and it appears they may be going the way of Napster.

  • Businesses boosting anti-P2P software

    Reid Burch, network services manager for the Promina Southern Regional Health System hospital near Atlanta, was having a problem with slow networks early this year.

  • Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help

    A glitch that locked millions of people out of the most popular file-trading network since Napster's fall is raising new questions about the future of the Net's free-music bonanza.

  • Record industry sues Napster clones

    After successful suits against Napster, Scour and Aimster, the record industry and Hollywood studios are again flexing their muscles. The new plan: Sue file-trading networks Music City, Kazaa and Grokster.

  • Kazaa execs agree to asset freeze

    Executives associated with peer to peer software Web site Kazaa have agreed not to move, dispose of or disperse their private assets following a request made by record companies to the Federal Court on Friday.

  • Microsoft said to be mulling purchase of Claria

    Microsoft is in discussions to buy controversial adware maker Claria, sources say, in a move to own an advertising network to compete with rivals Google and Yahoo.

  • Is your company harbouring file-swappers?

    File-sharing software lurks on virtually all corporate networks, according to a network-monitoring company.

  • US piracy decision unlikely to hurt locals: lawyer

    A recent US federal court order for ISP Verizon to release details of one of its users to the Recording Industry Association of America is unlikely to affect Australians in the short term, a telecommunications law expert confirmed today.

  • Roxio taps Fanning for Napster take two

    Former file-swapping wunderkind Sean Fanning has signed up to help CD-burning technology company Roxio build a reborn Napster service--but with a difference.

  • Record labels sue Napster investor

    Two major record labels filed suit Monday against venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners for its investment in Napster, alleging that it contributed to rampant music theft through the former file-swapping network.

  • Napster buyout blocked--end is near

    Napster loses its final battle against the RIAA, as music industry lawyers convince a judge to block the file-swapping company’s US$9 million sale to Bertelsmann.

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