News (16)

  • Sharman and Altnet colluding: Universal

    Lawyers for Universal Music put the hard word on Sharman Networks in Federal Court today attempting to force the company to reveal its corporate structure and anonymous director. The Universal Music parties' senior counsel, John Nicholas, claimed the company has purposely been set up with no visible line of command to "resist a claim like this".

  • Altnet technology officer denied leave from Sharman case

    Technical officer for Altnet, Anthony Rose, today had his application to be struck out from the alleged music copyright infringement charges against Sharman Networks and affiliated parties denied in court today.

  • Kazaa owners risk jail

    Nikki Hemming and Kevin Bermeister, the masterminds behind the Kazaa file sharing software, could face time behind bars after the record industry initiated contempt of court proceedings, claiming an earlier ruling wasn't adhered to.

  • AIDS benefit album on Kazaa

    Sharman Networks is promoting an AIDS Benefit album on its Kazaa peer-to-peer network.

  • File-sharing networks may battle each other

    In a sign that file-sharing communities may start to turn on each other, Altnet said Thursday that rival networks may be violating its patent for digital tags and it plans to bring to them in line.

More News >

Reviews (1)

  • Kazaa releases new software

    Australian-headquartered Sharman Networks released a new version of its Kazaa file-trading software Thursday, adding new features and advertising partners the company hopes will aid in its legal struggle for its life.

Create an e-mail alert for "altnet"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
altnet


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 2 abby
  2. Popularity: 1 abby dinham
  3. Popularity: 1 assets
  4. Popularity: 2 australia
  5. Popularity: 1 bannon
  6. Popularity: 1 bermeister
  7. Popularity: 1 bittorrent
  8. Popularity: 5 borland
  9. Popularity: 1 brilliant
  10. Popularity: 1 business
  11. Popularity: 1 child
  12. Popularity: 2 copyright
  13. Popularity: 1 court
  14. Popularity: 1 dawn
  15. Popularity: 2 dinham
  16. Popularity: 1 edonkey
  17. Popularity: 1 fanning
  18. Popularity: 1 federal
  19. Popularity: 3 file
  20. Popularity: 1 freeze
  21. Popularity: 1 government
  22. Popularity: 1 hard drive
  23. Popularity: 2 hemming
  24. Popularity: 2 holdings
  25. Popularity: 1 ireland
  26. Popularity: 1 kawamoto
  27. Popularity: 13 kazaa
  28. Popularity: 1 kristyn
  29. Popularity: 1 lef
  30. Popularity: 2 license
  31. Popularity: 1 maslog-levis
  32. Popularity: 1 matter
  33. Popularity: 3 music
  34. Popularity: 1 napster
  35. Popularity: 6 networks
  36. Popularity: 1 olsen
  37. Popularity: 7 p2p
  38. Popularity: 1 pc invaders
  39. Popularity: 1 peer
  40. Popularity: 1 porn
  41. Popularity: 2 sharing
  42. Popularity: 1 shawn
  43. Popularity: 1 snocap
  44. Popularity: 1 software
  45. Popularity: 1 spyware
  46. Popularity: 1 stefanie
  47. Popularity: 1 swapping
  48. Popularity: 3 universal
  49. Popularity: 1 us
  50. Popularity: 1 wilcox
Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Alex Serpo Is green IT a marketing fad?
    It seems that green IT has dropped off the radar, with other technology issues moving to the fore. But was green IT ever a real technology movement, or was it just a marketing fad?
  • Array Gutless studios have the wrong target
    I have one word for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Gutless.
  • Array NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured