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  • Sharman catches a break in US P2P ruling

    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.

  • Kazaa case a 'fool's errand'

    Even if copyright holders manage to win their case against Sharman Networks in the US, there is no guarantee Australian courts will recognise the ruling.

  • Kazaa gets into showbiz, Bollywood style

    Sharman Networks, makers of the popular Kazaa peer-to-peer (p2p) software, will sell a feature length Bollywood movie through its service.

  • P2P networks under fire

    ZDNet Australia's coverage of the legal blitz by music piracy investigators on organisations and individuals it claims are involved in copyright-infringing activities.

  • Our staff hate installing Kazaa: Sharman CTO

    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.

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  • Fighting for the right to swap

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

  • New swap shop for Napster founder

    Napster founder Shawn Fanning is back in business, with a new vision of label-approved file trading.

  • The file-sharing dilemma

    M-Terra CTO Darrell Smith says that arguments in the peer-to-peer file-sharing space are still based on days gone by.

  • 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.

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