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Author Topic: the makers of KAZAA have sued the RIAA
Cobalt60~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:20 pm
the RIAA used Kazaa Lite in front of a congressional hearing as part of a demonstration.
(Kazaa Lite is a hacked version of Kazaa ; its not an official version .. hence the lawsuit)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm....5612683

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Earlier this week, Sharman Networks, the company that distributes the Kazaa Media Desktop software, accused the RIAA and several entertainment companies of violating its copyrights by downloading an unauthorized version of the Kazaa file sharing software and using it to discover the IP addresses of alleged music downloaders.

Sharman Networks charges the RIAA and its representatives of using Kazaa Lite, a version of Kazaa not distributed by Sharman, to hunt down Kazaa users in order to file their own copyright claims against alleged file sharers.

A representative of Media Defender, a copyright-violation headhunter that has worked with the RIAA, used Kazaa Lite at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., earlier this year to demonstrate what types of files were being shared, Morris says.


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Morris accuses Media Defender of using Kazaa Lite "in front of our lawyers" to demonstrate the dangers of peer-to-peer software during a congressional hearing. "He is using a hacked version of our code," Morris says. "That's a straightforward Digital Millennium Copyright Act violation."

The DMCA prohibits people from reverse-engineering computer code for the purposes of cracking copyright protection technology.


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Even if the RIAA were using the authorized Kazaa Media Desktop, distributed by Sharman Networks, to track down alleged music traders using Kazaa, that would violate the software's end-user license agreement, Morris adds. Kazaa Media Desktop's license agreement prohibits users from monitoring traffic or making search requests in order to accumulate information about individual users.
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.::Grognard1701::.~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:23 pm
GO KAZAA!!!

*waves little flag*

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coxy~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:23 pm
lmao, silly RIAA
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Dobberman~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:32 pm
That's priceless! :old1: Irony and Poetic Justice all rapped into one.
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Agent007~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:32 pm
Heh.  I'd like to see them win... but somehow I don't think it'll happen.
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.::Grognard1701::.~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:35 pm
who knows, but they have a good point.

What you doing right now, Agent? wanna play some game? me and james are thinking of reviving JKII

i have battlefield though...
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Agent007~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:36 pm
JK2 isn't istalled... and I'm currently downloading the FH mod for BF1942...  So I really can't play any online games right now.  Sorry.
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MB52~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:38 pm
How come RIAA hasn't sued the maker of kazza?
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Dobberman~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:40 pm
Cause sharing files isn't illegal, it's not their fault that some rotten apples tend to use it to share "copyrighted" files :old8:
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Peaceable Frood~rb
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Posted: Saturday, Sep. 27, 2003 09:43 pm
Hmm poetic justice, Sherman is using the law that RIAA wrote, against them. 2 things can come of this.


The RIAA has already sued Sherman and lost. That's why they are going after individuals. There was an RIAA\DMCA test case not long ago which said that the DMCA was unclear.  (Ofcourse, it would be, all it does is strengthen corporate America and screws the consumer, ofcourse you never heard about it when it was being signed, because the RIAA record labels own the news channels and they wrote the law, look your senators that you elected don't even write laws, the lazy bastards).
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