Sharman Tries To Delay Legal Attacks

The owners of Kazaa have moved to delay a legal assault on its operations, accusing record companies of using the Australian courts to win a battle they are losing overseas.

Sharman Networks made its application in the Federal Court yesterday after the Australian music industry conducted 12 raids on Friday on properties in Victoria, NSW and Queensland to seize documents owned by Sydney-based Sharman Networks, which runs Kazaa. The file-sharing site is the global successor to Napster for the unauthorised swapping of music files.

Read the whole article at The Age.