Jazzeast

Every month, there are 100 million people sharing three billion music files through Kazaa, the most common internet file-sharing software worldwide. They copy music to a CD, to their hard drives and to other portable devices like the Apple iPod. Music files are copied from a device to another and again through Kazaa, to share them with others. All of these acts are illegal.

That issue is just a simple fact and the reason why there’s no argument this week while the owners of Sharman Networks, Kazaa, and related companies defended their business’ legality in the Federal Court in Sydney.

The music industry desires Kazaa and similar systems to cease operation for good. Kazaa has been described by industry lawyers as "an engine of copyright piracy to the extent never before seen." Kazaa basically produces an online space for exchanging files, largely illegal music files.

Every Kazaa user has its own folder on their computer, which is shared with all other users; they call this as a peer-to-peer network. The folder’s contents can be shared for free–no money changes, but in return you have to share your own.

The case’ respondents were a network of several companies stretching out to Estonia from Australia with foreign stop-offs in the Channel and Vanuatu Islands.

On Monday, the music industry’s lawyers promised to bring out the hidden workings of those mentioned companies. They promised to show that the sole purpose of those companies was to promote music piracy. On the next day, Sharman along with its associates reasoned that they are even discouraging piracy.