Kazaa filter deadline extended to February

Kazaa filter deadline extended to February
We reported that Kazaa was given a deadline to either implement filters by December 5th, or shut down. Now Sharman Networks, Kazaa's owner, has announced that the deadline has been extended to late February next year. The deadline was given after a September ruling that found Kazaa users had broken the law and now Sharman needs to alter the code of Kazaa to prevent copyright infringement in the future.

In the earlier article we published, we have gone through the history of the Kazaa vs. Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) case in more detail. If you are interested the events that lead to this order, then read the previous news article here.



Source:
Reuters


Written by: James Delahunty @ 25 Nov 2005 8:13
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  • 9 comments
  • Lethal_B

    I'm just curious....will the RIAA still be monitoring Kazaa...i.e is it a free-for-all at the momen. May sound stupid, but I'd certainly be interested to know.

    25.11.2005 08:37 #1

  • evilh0ly

    ok now that kazaa's about to go down i hope they don't go after limewire.

    25.11.2005 10:42 #2

  • spawn1214

    it's so dumb. if it does go down, everyone knows that another one will come out right after. No reason to back up my explanation, t's just the way it is.

    25.11.2005 10:55 #3

  • Rikoshay

    'Tis the season for all corps to STFU and get on with their lives!

    Who really uses Kazaa anyways? It doesn't even work most of the time, has crappy audio most of the time, and I rarely get any file to finish anymore. Limewire works a lot better, but just so much. It's a lot easier to use a different P2P proggy.

    If nothing in life is free, then I'll just have to pretend and take it!

    25.11.2005 14:37 #4

  • umug

    It's about time they shut down Kazza, a nest of viruses, spyware, fake files and other assorted nasties. Impossible to remove from your computer without a complete reformat. There are plenty of better and safer P2P's out there.

    Limewire is gone already evilh0ly, they caved into RIAA, and are going legal. Try Frostwire to replace Limewire, almost the same development team just a new name, and Frostwire is FREE. lol

    26.11.2005 11:08 #5

  • esrever

    It's not the fact that they're shutting down kazaa that pisses me off. It's just that it's irritating that the govt has nothing better to do with our tax money then go after the taxpayers. Maybe if they put all the effort they're putting into stopping "piracy" into finding Bin Laden, we'd have found that f--ker by now.

    28.11.2005 16:27 #6

  • tozzich

    I was going to stop downloading music for free, but the first CD I ever bought broke my Itunes, gave me a virus, and totally messed up my computer. I had to pay 50.00 to get my computer running again.

    29.11.2005 14:13 #7

  • esrever

    was it one of those retarded sony BMG music cds?

    Pentium 4HT CPU overclocked to 3.5 Ghz - 2 GIGs RAM
    ATI Radeon X800 Graphics Card
    Plextor DVD+/-RW Drive
    vs17 LCD Monitor

    30.11.2005 00:22 #8

  • lxfactor

    aries is a good replacement for limeware and frosthunt

    5.12.2005 10:32 #9

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