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  • 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".

  • Kazaa will 'live on' regardless: Sharman witness

    Sharman Networks' expert witness has revealed that the Kazaa Media Desktop and FastTrack system will continue to spread even if both systems were to be shut down.

  • Professor declined to be expert witness for Sharman

    Sharman Networks parties' legal representative today revealed an e-mail stating that one of the witnesses for the Universal Music Australia parties had previously declined to be an expert witness for the Sharman parties in the ongoing civil trial against the peer to peer software provider for alleged copyright infringement. Additional reading: Sharman case story archive

  • Sharman officer claims child porn unstoppable

    Sharman Networks' chief technology officer has refuted a claim on the Kazaa Web site that the company could "permanently bar" users who are using its peer-to-peer software to distribute child pornography.

  • Kazaa will meet Napster's fate: Focus group

    Legal representatives from both the Sharman Networks parties and music industry stretched the 13th day of the ongoing trial against the peer to peer software provider for alleged copyright infringing behaviour with arguments over which pieces of evidence will be admissible in court.

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  • Getting bad with Apple

    Michael Robertson started MP3.com and Linspire. Now he's taking on iTunes with BadApple.

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  • Can the music industry change?

    In order to survive, the IT industry has gone through some big changes in the last few years. by contrast, the music industry still doesn't get it.

  • 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.

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