We already knew KaZaA is in big trouble. The company already stopped it's downloads and accepted now new users. Today the website of the software has changed and says it has been sold to an Australian company.
Users are now also able to download the software again using the CloudLoad technique (this technology is explained at the FastTrack site, but has been removed, but google has still cached it).
It seems KaZaA is doing some tricks to keep in business and doesn't give up as fast as Napster did. At least FastTrack is trying to get their hands of the software, so it can tell the judge it can't control the software. As Dotcomscoop reports:
As of last week the company was based in the Netherlands. However, upon close examination of its new terms of use license, the company now appears to be based in Australia. |
"This License as well as all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the New South Wales, without regard to or application of choice of law rules or principles. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this License, or in future agreements resulting there from, shall be exclusively resolved before the competent court in New South Wales," the new terms of use dictate.
New South Wales is Australia's largest state population wise and the home of Sydney.
The "WHOIS" information for the Kazaa.com domain has not been updated, but a note posted on the KaZaA site on early Monday morning EST led users to believe that FastTrack, the company that created the code used for and owns KaZaA, and has licensed its code out to competitors MusicCity and Grokster, no longer controls KaZaA. Various searches for "Sharman Network Services" turned up no results.
Unfortunately the software also seems to have an option build in that would enable the company to ask money for the use of the software in the future.
Well let's see what happens, in my opinion KaZaA and it's friends (Grokster and Morpheus) are very intresting software, the technology behind it is good and might survive current lawsuits.
Read more about the 'mystery' here.
Source: Dotcomscoop.com
