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Kazaa peer-to-peer network risks the shut-down
News Nov 25, 2005
Injunction for Kazaa, the popular P2P network, from an aussie court.
Sharman Networks, the company who owns Kazaa, must prepare a filter to avoid copyrighted material file sharing between his users within Dicember,5th or the service will be closed.
An appeal to the judgment has been presented and it seems that there will be a time extesion to set such filter until the end of February.
Note that just in the last days Bram Cohen, the creator and owner of Bit Torrent, another file sharing system, declared that a similar filter for his network will be prepared soon.