News (52)

  • destra backs Kazaa shutdown

    An Australian legal music download company partnered with major record labels has backed the blocking of Kazaa to new Australian users as a sign piracy will no longer be tolerated by authorities here.

  • Witnesses tackle Kazaa filtering claims

    Overriding severe objections from Sharman Networks' counsel, Federal Court Justice Murray Wilcox allowed an anti-piracy services provider based in New York to give evidence at the civil trial against owners of the peer-to-peer software Kazaa.

  • Sharman denied opportunity to appeal over civil search orders

    Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment (BDE) have been denied application for leave to appeal Anton Piller orders that facilitated raids on the companies' premises.

  • Kazaa verdict due in hours

    Judgement in the long-running legal battle between the music industry and Sharman Networks over alleged copyright breaches involving the Kazaa file-sharing software will be handed down in the Federal Court in Sydney this afternoon.

  • Sharman Networks touts music ruling as win

    Sharman Networks chief executive officer, Nikki Hemming, claims yesterday's Federal Court decision has justified the company's claims that the surprise raids of Sharman premises were "heavy handed" tactics.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (2)

  • Fighting for the right to swap

    Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

Create an e-mail alert for "civil"
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:
civil


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 8 abby
  2. Popularity: 2 antipiracy
  3. Popularity: 2 association
  4. Popularity: 5 australia
  5. Popularity: 2 bittorrent
  6. Popularity: 2 bmg
  7. Popularity: 4 borland
  8. Popularity: 2 consumer
  9. Popularity: 18 copyright
  10. Popularity: 5 court
  11. Popularity: 3 declan
  12. Popularity: 2 declan mccullagh
  13. Popularity: 8 dinham
  14. Popularity: 2 dmca
  15. Popularity: 2 electronic
  16. Popularity: 4 emi
  17. Popularity: 2 federal
  18. Popularity: 2 ferguson
  19. Popularity: 7 file
  20. Popularity: 5 file sharing
  21. Popularity: 4 file-sharing
  22. Popularity: 4 file-swapping
  23. Popularity: 4 filesharing
  24. Popularity: 2 fileswapping
  25. Popularity: 2 holdings
  26. Popularity: 2 iain
  27. Popularity: 2 industry
  28. Popularity: 11 infringement
  29. Popularity: 2 investigations
  30. Popularity: 4 john
  31. Popularity: 2 lawsuit
  32. Popularity: 2 license
  33. Popularity: 3 mccullagh
  34. Popularity: 8 mipi
  35. Popularity: 24 music
  36. Popularity: 3 music industry piracy investigations
  37. Popularity: 10 networks
  38. Popularity: 25 p2p
  39. Popularity: 4 peer
  40. Popularity: 15 peer-to-peer
  41. Popularity: 9 piracy
  42. Popularity: 15 riaa
  43. Popularity: 5 sharing
  44. Popularity: 18 sharman
  45. Popularity: 2 sharman networks
  46. Popularity: 4 sony
  47. Popularity: 2 spyware
  48. Popularity: 2 to
  49. Popularity: 9 universal
  50. Popularity: 2 us

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

Back to top

Featured