Kazaa

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the music and movie industries are starkly opposed to the use of Kazaa?s technology because it infringes upon copyright laws and decreases the profits made from music and movie sales. The author states that the creators of Kazaa, three Estonian computer programmers, revolutionized the way that peer-to-peer networks work over the Internet and also have created a telephony software program for the Internet known as Skype. The paper relates that the lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against the use of Kazaa are complicated because Kazaa has been deemed legal in Europe where the company resides.

Table of Contents
Introduction
The Technology
The Creators of Kazaa
Ethics Regarding the Software
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The music and movie industries argue that what Kazaa allows is not "sharing" but stealing. For this reason, in October of 2001 both the music and movie industries sued Kazaa. According to "The race to kill Kazaa" the purpose of these suits were to keep the millions of kazaa users from stealing movies, copyrighted music and software files. The article reports that this task was more difficult than these industries had anticipated. This difficulty existed because unlike other file sharing sited Kazaa does not have a server (it operates on anonymous supernodes) and as a result the industries had nothing to shut down."

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