Kazaa Sues Record Labels

dannyp writes "CNN is reporting that Kazaa is suing the record companies, claiming that they used an illegal client to log in to the P2P network - an interesting twist." The lawsuit also claims "...efforts to combat piracy on Kazaa violated terms for using the network."

Suddenly

[keesh]

I wish I was a lawyer, not an engineer...

resisting cliche urge

[cr@ckwhore]

must... resist... urge... to ... post.... cliches!

resisting.... what goes... around... comes around... aaaah... pot... kettle... black... force is stronger... glass houses... AAAAH.

heh

In soviet Russia...

[ShawnDoc]

Kazaa sues the record companies! Oh wait.

grant them amnesty

[civilengineer]

if they promise not make any more CDs

In other news

[bobbabemagnet]

Kazaa recently withdrew their suit after they realized they were suing a 60 year old woman with an iMac. This follows the current trend of trying to give a random old lady a heart attack.

Re:In other news

[ikkonoishi]

No. No. No. Kazaa dropped the case when it realized that it was really a party magician.

Well how about me?

[_Sexy_Pants_]

I want in on the action! Who can I sue!?

HEHEH DMCA

[Anonymous Coward]

They should encrypt the Kazaa network and sue the RIAA for DMCA violations...

yes but...

[another misanthrope]

...how long until they demand Google pull all R**A links?

My fave quote

[smoondog]

The Recording Industry Association of America called Sharman's "newfound admiration for the importance of copyright law" ironic and "self-serving."

And to that Kazaa replied that the RIAA's newfound disrespect for the legal system ironic and self-serving.

-Sean

Next thing you know...

[El]

Kazaa will be offering an amnesty to the RIAA provided they send in a notorized confession and promise never to monitor the Kazaa network again!

Re:Suddenly

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Legal code and computer code have a lot in common. They are incomprehensible to the common man, riddled with logical errors, and open to exploitation an abuse by hacks.

Re:Legality

[zurab]

How is it legal for record companies to obtain information on users from the ISP? Are there no privacy laws regarding ISPs? Just curious...

Where have you been all this time? DMCA actually obligates ISPs to disclose subscriber information at RIAA's (or other copyright owners' request). So it would be illegal for ISPs not to supply subscribers' information. RIAA can do this without any judicial oversight, let alone having to file a suit first to obtain a subpoena. RIAA has more power than police or FBI themselves!

Re:Suddenly

[EvilTwinSkippy]

Have you actually read an act of congress? Talk about security through obscurity!

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Re:RIAA != Gov

[ScrewMaster]

Yes. So far as the Federal Government is concerned, you can only sue them under certain conditions and only if they let you. Fortunately, the RIAA isn't an arm of the Federal Government, yet.

I'll get worried when the new Bureau of Homeland Music Security is instituted.

Re:Suddenly

[queequeg1]

Way offtopic, but something to think about if you consider becoming an attorney . . .

Every once in awhile I run into someone who graduated from law school and, for some unknown reason decided to take up writing, or start a new business, or something else that has nothing to do with law. Despite my favorable experiences practicing law for the past six years, whenever I run into one of these people, I have this disturbing feeling that I'm talking to someone who managed to resist a great and horrible temptation and do something meaningful and worthwhile with their lives. I'm not quite sure what to make of this. The closest analogy (because we lawyers only think in analogies) is that it is like those moments of lucidity that senile elderly people sometimes have, when they suddenly remember everything and don't demonstrate the symptoms of memory loss. Perhaps I'm remembering that I once had a well anchored perception of common sense, decency, and respect for my fellow man.

oh well, gotta get back to writing that brief.

Sue me hoes!

[t_allardyce]

Great now il get sued by Kazaa for using Kazaa Lite, and the RIAA for copy-right theft and SunnComm for circumnavigation. Does anyone else want in? Come round to mine for super-hot coffee burns and violent video games!

(Good thing i dont live in America)

Disclaimer: This post is not a legal confession.

Re:Suddenly

[Alien Being]

If these lawyers were engineers, there designs would look like this [rube-goldberg.com].

NICE !! sue those pos strong-arm aholes

[Anonymous Coward]

i love a good fight, and i always root for tthe underdog.

now, if we can only get the Canadian goevrnment to produce some decent weed.

Re:gander?

[ArsonSmith]

bull of course, takes a while to get 'em going but once they start...

Re:Suddenly

[Paradise Pete]

I have this disturbing feeling that I'm talking to someone who managed to resist a great and horrible temptation and do something meaningful and worthwhile with their lives.

Here we have a sentence which can be parsed as either saying practicing law is a bad thing, or not practicing law is a bad thing. Clearly you are a great lawyer.

It's obvious...

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

Yeah, but the computer code has to eventually compile. :-)

It's obvious you never worked for a .com before :)

Re:Suddenly

[NanoGator]

"Yeah, but the computer code has to eventually compile. :-)"

I use interpreted languages you insensitive clod.

Re:Slashdot dualmindedness again

[Excen]

Hitler wasn't much of an artist. Check this out, and the main link

Now why in the bloody bloody hell would I want to go to a website like Hitler.org? It's almost as bad as going to goatse.cx voluntarily.

Re:Suddenly

[jjeff]

They shouldn't tolerate Adults either.. let the children run free!

right back to work now.

Re:Hmmmm..

[wastaz]

Yeah, you should check out the secret ftp running on 127.0.0.1, thats where BSA stores all the l33t w4r3z that they take from their busts. It's great! Fast download, has nearly everything, really awesome!

Re:At least we know...

[Anonymous Coward]

When you wanks say 9/11 the whole world thinks you mean the ninth of november.

Re:It's obvious...

[poot_rootbeer]

Yeah, but the computer code has to eventually compile. :-)

It's obvious you never worked for a .com before :) .com, .exe... whatever. They both have to compile. :)