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  • Hemming hands over asset details

    Peer-to-peer software provider Sharman Networks' chief executive officer has handed over an affidavit of assets following an order from the Federal Court yesterday.

  • Record companies claim Sharman in contempt

    Record companies have started contempt proceedings against Sharman Networks over the company's failure to meet a Federal Court deadline to comply with an assets disclosure order.

  • 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.

  • The beat goes on -- Sharman papers privileged?

    The Federal Court today ordered the former lawyers of peer-to-peer software provider Sharman Networks to re-draft a list indicating which documents fall under legal professional privilege.

  • Music industry, Sharman face off in Australia

    The largest copyright infringement case in Australian history has started, with Sydney-based Sharman Networks and other "respondents" involved with peer-to-peer software Kazaa facing 30 record company "applicants" from Australia, North America and Europe.

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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.

  • 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.

  • When the US says jump, we say....

    In order to get the real picture behind the US-Australia free trade agreement, one needs to examine the document with a fine-tooth comb. Of particular interest is how Australia will have to model its laws after the US Millennium Copyright Act.

  • 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.

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