Remember that KaZaA was sold to an Australian company called Sharman Networks ? We all expected this to be a good trick of the developers of KaZaA, FastTrack, to get rid of copyright organisation BUMA/Stemra in the Netherlands, the country FastTrack is located.
Now an Australian website is reporting that also the Aussi authorities are watching KaZaA closely. The website also reports more about the mysterious buyer of KaZaA, Sharman Networks.
Sharman chief executive Nikki Hemming, was formerly chief executive of failed Sydney theme park Sega World. KaZaA was developed by Amsterdam-based Consumer Empowerment, which also developed the FastTrack technology used in file-sharing programs Morpheus and Grokster. |
The companies behind all three programs last October became the subject of a legal claim by the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association. The KaZaA.com website stopped operating temporarily last week when a Dutch judge ruled it may be infringing copyright laws. When it appeared again earlier this week, a message had been added to the home page, reading: "The original brains behind Kazaa have moved on to develop new innovative software.
"The team now running Kazaa will continue to deliver the best technology for finding, saving and transferring all the data you want: no limits." Mr Mallett said APRA was also watching international developments on the legality of file-sharing software.
"The other side of the coin is that the record companies have started legitimate subscription services that compensate copyright owners for use of their material," he said. "If users in the past didn't have a choice, now they do."
Piracy had been a problem long before file-sharing programs were developed, he said. The Californian public relations company representing Sharman Networks was unable to provide further details about plans for KaZaA.
You can run but you can't hide, maybe some company in a obscure country is able to save the company once.
Maybe all the people with money should just buy a country with no copyrights and put a lot of servers over there
Source: Australianit.com
