Sharman Networks has called former Napster expert witness Justin Tygar to give his testimony during the ongoing trial against the peer to peer software provider for alleged copyright infringement.
Sharman Networks, parent company of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software Kazaa, are rejoicing at the US court ruling that found two similar P2P programs, Grokster and Morpheus, do not violate US copyright law. However, the company concedes that the ruling is unlikely to have any effect on the music copyright infringement case currently underway in Australia.
Peer-to-peer file-sharing software developers say user privacy protection concerns are behind the introduction of features designed to foil scanning by organisations representing owners of copyright-protected material.
An internal document written by Sharman Network's chief technology officer has revealed that the peer-to-peer provider's employees "hate" installing the Kazaa software because it has ill-effects on their computers.
Lawyers for music industry players claimed Stephen Cooper received "hundreds of millions of hits" per year to his allegedly illegal music download site, "mp3s4free", as the long-awaited court case against the retired policeman kicked off at the Federal Court in Sydney today.
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Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.
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