Tag archive: Sharman

Sharman Networks, owners of the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing service, announced today that they have settled all litigation with four of the world's largest music publishers (Universal, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner Music) for $100 million, and immediately commits to “going legal” and using Kazaa to distribute only licences content. Sharman has also settled with the Motion Picture Association of America (PDF), which said… Read More

Corporate officers at Sharman Networks, operators of Australia's Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing service, could face jail time if a judge finds them in contempt of court for failing to implement search filtering technology designed to prevent the illegal trade of copyrighted material. In late November, Australian Federal Court Judge Murray Wilcox ordered that Kazaa must deploy search filtering technology by December 5, 2005 to… Read More

An Australian court has ruled that the peer-to-peer file sharing network Kazaa authorized copyright infringement by knowingly permitting infringing material to traverse its system, and, furthermore, encouraged such infringement because it was in Sharman's financial interest. The suit was brought by Australian record companies and units of international record companies such as Universal Music, Sony, and EMI. Kazaa is currently… Read More

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.

On Friday, Music Industry Piracy Investigations obtained court orders to search 12 sites across Australia to hunt down evidence of copyright infringement. One of the targets of the searches was Sharman, owner of popular peer-to-peer software Kazaa. “As a formality you always serve the papers on the registered company as well,” MIPI manager Michael Speck told ZDNet Australia. Sharman Networks incorporated itself in the… Read More

Investigators working for the Australian Recording Industry Association raided the offices of Sharman Networks, makers of Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing software, Friday searching for evidence linking the company to copyright infringement, the company says. The company was served with a “search and seize” order issued by a judge at the Federal Court of Australia. The homes of two Sharman executives were also searched, according… Read More

TechNewsWorld has posted an interesting article about file sharing that features an interview with Sharman Networks' CTO Phil Morle. TNW: What is your general feeling about the RIAA? Morle: Mostly disappointment. I have the benefit of many years thinking about P2P and its potential, and they have not got past the stage of fear. I am naturally disappointed that we are all wasting time and money on futile legal battles when everyone… Read More

Turning the tables on record labels, makers of the most popular Internet song-swapping network are suing entertainment companies for copyright infringement. Sharman Networks Ltd., the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing software, filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the entertainment companies of using unauthorized versions of its software in their efforts to root out users. Entertainment companies have offered bogus versions of… Read More