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News Representatives from Kazaa, or its owners Sharman Networks, could not be reached. Other plaintiffs in the StreamCast case include Altnet CEO Kevin Bermeister, Bluemoon, Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Indigo Investment,... [28 Mar 2006]
Kazaa ordered to block 3,000 keywords
News Justice Murray Wilcox has ordered the owner of Kazaa, Sharman Networks, to modify the file-sharing software to block a list of search terms - primarily artist and song names - to be supplied by the record companies. [25 Nov 2005]
Kazaa copyright ruling "a milestone", says music industry
News 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... [06 Sep 2005]
Kazaa must clean up users' behaviour, says judge
News The infringing respondents - Altnet, Brilliant Digital Entertainment boss Kevin Bermeister, LEF Interactive, Sharman CEO Nicole Hemming and Sharman Networks - were ordered to pay 90 per cent of the music... [05 Sep 2005]
Music industry spied on Sharman boss
News The Australian music industry's piracy investigations unit conducted extensive surveillance of the Sydney north shore house owned by the chief executive officer of peer-to-peer provider Sharman Networks, the unit's... [01 Jun 2005]
Kazaa execs agree to freeze assets
News The Australian record companies were seeking a Mareva order - which covers freezing of assets -against the P2P software provider Sharman Networks and associated parties as part of the ongoing trial over alleged copyright... [07 Mar 2005]
Child porn 'unstoppable'
News Philip Morle, Sharman Networks' chief technology officer, told the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday, during the trial of the peer-to-peer software provider over alleged copyright-infringing behaviour, he did not believe... [10 Dec 2004]
Kazaa 'could have been designed to spy on users'
News A witness in the ongoing civil trial against peer-to-peer software provider Sharman Networks has added weight to testimony last week that logs can be maintained to trace users who are exchanging unlicensed music online... [07 Dec 2004]
Aussies trash Kazaa in court
News "The Kazaa system is an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen," declared the counsel for the music industry, Tony Bannon, during today's commencement of the civil trial against peer-to-peer (P2P) software... [29 Nov 2004]
Kazaa 3.0 to include Skype
News Peer-to-peer software distributor Sharman Networks has launched Kazaa v3.0, which allows users to make free online calls to anywhere in the world. Sharman Networks spokesperson Nikki Hemming said the... [23 Nov 2004]
Kazaa no longer king of P2P
News A US spokesman for Australia-based Sharman Networks, Kazaa's parent, had no immediate comment on the news. Kazaa, once a top nemesis of record companies and movie studios, appears to have lost its role as the world's... [12 Oct 2004]
Grokster and Morpheus 'don't violate US copyright'
News Sharman Networks, Australian parent company of the file-sharing software developer Kazaa, is rejoicing at the US court ruling that two similar peer-to-peer programs, Grokster and Morpheus, do not violate copyright law. [23 Aug 2004]
US law seeks to stamp out all copyright abuses
News Philip Corwin, a lobbyist for Sharman Networks, which distributes the Kazaa client, said: "It's simple and it's deadly. A forthcoming bill in the US Senate would, if passed, dramatically reshape copyright law by... [18 Jun 2004]
Kazaa fails to meet court evidence deadline
News Sharman Networks and the Music Industry Piracy Investigation (MIPI) will be back in the Australian Federal court later this week for yet another legal contest over access to evidence that was confiscated in raids last... [12 May 2004]
File-sharing has no impact on CD sales, says research
News We welcome sound research into the developing peer-to-peer industry, and this study appears to have covered some interesting ground," said Nikki Hemming, CEO of Kazaa parent Sharman Networks. A study of file-sharing's... [30 Mar 2004]
