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  • AIDS benefit album on Kazaa

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

  • Sharman to appeal while record labels celebrate

    Sharman Networks has announced it will appeal a Federal Court ruling that several respondents associated with the company had authorised infringement of music industry copyright and that it must introduce filters to the Kazaa file-sharing software.

  • Music industry download report sparks debate

    The music industry piracy investigations unit has blasted the Kazaa software after the release of the 2005 digital music report from International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

  • Sharman considers appeal over Aust court ruling

    Sharman Networks is considering applying for leave to appeal yesterday's Federal Court decision allowing the admission of evidence obtained under a civil search order to a music industry court action against it.

  • In depth: Kazaa legal team, AU music industry talk copyright

    Following Sharman Networks' announcement that it filed papers with the United States Supreme Court in support of file sharing companies Grokster and StreamCast, ZDNet Australia spoke to the p2p software company's California based legal team and Australia's own piracy investigations chief about copyright infringement, technology and the law.

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  • Kazaa finds friends in file-swapping fight

    Computer and telecommunications companies are allying with file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net.

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