More mp3 file sharing news today. In a reaction to the dutch court KaZaa said it is impossible to stop their file sharing sevice. The company was forced to stop users who share illegal, unlicensed material.
"The computer program has already been distributed," said KaZaA lawyer Christiaan Alberdink Thijm. "KaZaA can't see what sort of files people are sharing or who its users are."
KaZaA claims its software has been downloaded over 20 million times.
"We don't really know what the judge wants KaZaA to do," Alberdink Thijm added. The answer to that is talk to the music industry and figure out a way of licensing the content that users are sharing. That's certainly the implication of the Judge's order to the Dutch music publishing body, Buma/Stemra, which brought the case against KaZaA and its parent, Consumer Empowerment. CE also owns FastTrack, the company that developed the sharing software KaZaA offers.
So what happens next? They are ordered to stop it, but they do not have the power. But the RIAA thinks that the KaZaa software does maintain a user database. Each day users share illegal content KaZaa has to pay 100,000 dutch guilders. More to come...
Source: TheRegister
