p2pnet - rss feed: Kazaa Oz closure imminent?
p2p news / p2pnet: The Big Four record labels will demand that the Australian federal court orders Sharman Networks’ Kazaa p2p network to be closed, “within days,” says ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) boss Stephen Peach.
Quoted in Australian IT, “From our point of view they have clearly breached an existing court order,” he says. “They have failed to implement the keyword filters that the court ordered …”
Kazaa had until December 5 to find a way to implement a keyword filter system but instead, it ” elected to by block Australian users’ access to the Kazaa software from its web site late last night,” says the story. “It also warned existing Australian Kazaa users to use the software.”
Australian IT says Sharman claims the measures, “were in harmony the orders Justice Wilcox originally handed down in September effectively making the new orders redundant”.
“The judgment pertained to authorisation of copyright in Australia,” a Sharman spokeswoman is quoted as saying.
“All activity that could be deemed as authorising has stopped so as to comply with the Court orders, pending the imminent appeal in February.”
ARIA spokeswoman Felicity Moffatt had been, “phoning journalists around Australia and saying Kazaa will be shut down because it hasn’t complied with the court’s orders to implement keyword filtering by December 5,” says a p2pnet an Oz source.
Also read:-
Australian IT - MIPI to seek shutdown order, December 6, 2005
phoning journalists - Spin is a wonderful thing, December 6, 2005
December 8th, 2005 at 12:43 am
This is Bogus
December 8th, 2005 at 2:23 am
Prehaps, prehaps not.
One things for sure, Kazaa cut down on the amount of word filtering necessary by filtering only one word, Australia. Sounds to me like they have met the intention of the court to prevent infringement by word filter in the country the court presides over.
Of course we all knew the real reason wasn’t to get word filters active on Kazaa, it was to shut down Kazaa. The cartels are well aware that word filters are snake oil and anyone that truely wants to get around it can. The real reason was to prevent Kazaa from being able to implement such a filter by not co-operating with the courts’ order of allowing Kazaa to remain in business. That is the most probable reason that the second technical meeting to implement filters to the cartels satisfaction didn’t happen because the meeting didn’t occur in its entirety due to a lack of responce by the cartels lapdog in Australia; the ARIA. No way only one party can solve this if the cartels don’t want to talk to make clear how it is to be done to their satisfaction.
December 8th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
“It also warned existing Australian Kazaa users to use the software.”
Warned them to use?? I think thats a mistake on Australian IT