Even though a court ordered deadline in the Netherlands has come and gone for Kazaa to start implementing some sort of anti-piracy controls with regards to file swapping
"You could derive from that, that the negotiations have went in a such a way that for now no fines have to be paid," he said".
But Kazaa does have some problems
Kazaa faces suits in both the Netherlands and the United States, where it was sued along with Grokster and MusicCity by the record industry and Hollywood studios.
However
According to defense attorneys in the Los Angeles case, new developments in peer-to-peer technology may have changed some of the underlying legal assumptions in such suits.
The second round of peer-to-peer litigation potentially poses some tougher legal questions, the technology's advocates argue, since companies such as FastTrack merely make and market software products and play no other role in assisting file-trading among their customers.
So what's going to happen?
Is it possible, eg.. record companies will come after you and I or will they head to the nearest isp provider and say 48,000 of your customers are stealing songs, movies and programs and we demand you do something or we will take you to court.
Source: cnet technology
