This news item has been lingering in our news submits for some time now since we were not sure if the news was really accurate. A few days ago DrJ used our news submit to tell us that Kazaa has changed its End User License Agreement (EULA) to block organizations like the RIAA from collecting personal information on its users:
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2 What you can't do under this Licence You agree not to use the Software to:
Also found in the idemnification part is found that:
Meaning that when you get sued, you're also obligated to help stop further lawsuits from happening against Sharman Networks. Hopefully this will stop the bogus files from entering the Kazaa network and users can once again safely download the correct files without any errors. |
It of course remains to be seen if changing the EULA
has any effect on future lawsuits. There are always older Kazaa versions
available to which this new EULA does not apply and I think a judge would simply
reject the changed EULA in case of a lawsuit. On the other hand it's
interesting to see that Sharman is trying to block organizations such as the
RIAA.
Source: CD Freaks















