Kazaa in court
30/11/04 12:35 Media
issues
Now this is going to be interesting. File swapping
house Kazaa (www.kazaa.com)
is going to court in Australia to defend itself
against the idea that it advocates illegal transfer
of copyright material (see
Guardian story here).
I have no idea how this one's going to pan out. But I do think that the defence - that the technology isn't responsible for the copying any more than a video recorder is responsible for infringements - will start to look shakey when it's borne in mind that this is more like thousands of interlinked video recorders helping themselves to entire tape libraries.
We shall see.
I have no idea how this one's going to pan out. But I do think that the defence - that the technology isn't responsible for the copying any more than a video recorder is responsible for infringements - will start to look shakey when it's borne in mind that this is more like thousands of interlinked video recorders helping themselves to entire tape libraries.
We shall see.
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