KazaaGate
p2pnet.net News:- As the world knows, Sharman Networks, owner of the Kazaa p2p file sharing application, is on trial in Australia while the Big Four record label cartel attempts to take it down.
Again.
The cartel failed to nail Grokster and Morpheus, so now they’re trying to set a precedent in Australia by browbeating Aussie Judge Murray Wilcox into ruling that Kazaa is in some way ‘illegal’.
Kazaa has the distinction of going from the world’s most-used to the world’s most despised p2p file sharing app under Sharman’s venal administrations.
We think the cartel will suffer yet another ignominious defeat, but it’s going to take another three weeks or so before we find out.
But as the trail proceeds, Australia’s APC Magazine is running a “virtually unedited” online day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of the trial.
“At best, it’s anti journalism. It’s everything you won’t read in the serious press,” says the site. “At worst, it’s undisciplined opinion, gossip, and just a little naughty.”
There’s also an opinion poll, ie:
How could Sharman CTO Phil Morle’s laptop be working one minute, then totally stuffed when a raiding investigator seizes it?
- the harddrive just clapped out. It happens.
- excessive spyware masquerading as value-added apps gobbled it to death.
- it was one of those self destructing shareware types of hard drive.
- curse from a Vanuatu God.
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See:-
failed to nail - Morpheus, Grokster win p2p fight, August 19, 2004
virtually unedited – KazaaGate [# 1] November 30, 2004
December 3rd, 2004 at 5:07 am
Lets see I think curse of a vanuatu god has happen there!!!!!
December 3rd, 2004 at 9:02 am
Fasttrack is already dying a slow death, with less than half the population they had in early 2003. Meanwhile, Bittorrent, ED2K, Ares and Gnutella populations soar.