p2pnet - rss feed: Kazaa, Big Music Aussie trial
p2pnet.net News:- “While ‘piracy’ (ARIA’s generic term for all copyright infringement) is a serious problem, will shutting down Kazaa solve it all? Hardly.”
Kazaa is at the same time the best-known and, by virtue of its unasked for and unwanted adware (to put it kindly), most despised of all p2p applications. Owner Sharman Networks has been trying for years to persuade the entertainment industry that Kazaa and applications from associated companies such as Altnet would make great bed-fellows.
However, the major studios and the record label cartel want nothing to do with it or Kazaa and Sharman is currently being sued by cartel components in Australia because, it says through its ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association), Kazaa lets people illegally download music.
The quote in the intro is from a Canberra Times story written by none other than Alex Malik, a former ARIA in-house lawyer and ex-senior legal officer at the Australian Communications Authority, Canberra.
Whatever happens to Sharman/Kazaa/Altnet, file sharers will still use, “BitTorrent, MP3 websites, music ‘forums’ and hubs (ask your kids!)” for “free” music, and they’ll probably keep buying CDs like everyone else, he says going on:
“According to the Undercover website, in the week ending December 13, a record-breaking 244,759 Top 10 CDs were sold across Australia. Does this sound like an industry in crisis?”
At the moment, the parties are on their summer break until the case resumes for closing arguments on March 22, 2005, says Malik, adding:
“It will be a hot, restless summer for many of the participants. Even if ARIA succeeds in these proceedings, Internet-based piracy will not be stamped out. If Altnet and Sharman succeed, they will still not have the license agreements in place which would allow them to sell digital downloads.
“So far, the only winners in this case appear to be the lawyers charging in six-minute increments.”
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See:-
Alex Malik - Thank you for the music - everyone can be a winner in ARIA vs Kazaa, Canberra Times, 28 December 2004
December 28th, 2004 at 7:35 pm
the judge in the case has already said that he will not order kazaa to shutdown. This case is about whether or not kazaa financially liable for what there users do on there netwok.
December 29th, 2004 at 11:47 pm
Kazaa is not the most hated p2p app ES5 is.
January 6th, 2005 at 12:18 am
Stop Trying to shut p2p down, you will never sucseed b/c when one way falls, (if case against kazza sucseeds and it is shut down) all the others will get stronger as there will be more demands. if companies realy wanted to boost their sales, they should route the money to special things included with CDs, meet the celebrity contests, and other things that might encourage the population to buy the CD’s. Also, cheper prices and enviormentally friendly CDs would help aswell.
-this is a message from a neutral point of view who thinks that is is neither right or wrong, but is too lazy to go to the store and buy the CD, when i can get the same thing downloading for me, if there was something interesting in the CD box, i would surely go and buy it.
January 6th, 2005 at 12:19 am
Stop Trying to shut p2p down, you will never sucseed b/c when one way falls, (if case against kazza sucseeds and it is shut down) all the others will get stronger as there will be more demands. if companies realy wanted to boost their sales, they should route the money to special things included with CDs, meet the celebrity contests, and other things that might encourage the population to buy the CD’s. Also, cheper prices and enviormentally friendly CDs would help aswell.
-this is a message from a neutral point of view who thinks that is is neither right or wrong, but is too lazy to go to the store and buy the CD, when i can get the same thing downloading for me, if there was something interesting in the CD box, i would surely go and buy it.
January 16th, 2005 at 7:24 pm
ewwwwwwwww gross so like 10 minutes ago!!!!!!I mean thats sooo gay!!!