By August , the Kazaa website was no longer active. Kazaa was introduced by the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment in March , near the end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July Skype itself was based on Kazaa's P2P backend, which allowed users to make a call by directly connecting them with each other.
Initially, some users of the Kazaa network were users of the Morpheus client program, formerly made available by MusicCity. Eventually, the official Kazaa client became more widespread. In February , when Morpheus developers failed to pay license fees, Kazaa developers used an automatic update ability to shut out Morpheus clients by changing the protocol. Morpheus later became a client of the gnutella network. The court ordered Kazaa's owners to take steps to prevent its users from violating copyrights or else pay a heavy fine.
In October a lawsuit was filed against Consumer Empowerment by members of the music and motion picture industry in the USA. In response Consumer Empowerment sold the Kazaa application to Sharman Networks, headquartered in Australia and incorporated in Vanuatu. In late March , a Dutch court of appeal reversed an earlier judgment and stated that Kazaa was not responsible for the actions of its users.
In , Kazaa signed a deal with Altnet and Streamwaves to try to convert users to paying, legal customers. Searchers on Kazaa were offered a free second sample of songs for which they were searching and directed to sign up for the full-featured Streamwaves service. However, Kazaa's new owner, Sharman, was sued in Los Angeles by the major record labels and motion pictures studios and a class of music publishers.
The other defendants in that case Grokster and MusicCity, makers of the Morpheus file-sharing software initially prevailed against the plaintiffs on summary judgment Sharman joined the case too late to take advantage of that ruling. Grokster, Ltd. Following that ruling in favor of the plaintiff labels and studios, Grokster almost immediately settled the case. Shortly thereafter, on 27 July , it was announced that Sharman had also settled with the record industry and motion picture studios. While the U.
On 6 February , the homes of two Sharman Networks executives and the offices of Sharman Networks in Australia were raided under a court order by ARIA to gather evidence for the trial.
On 5 September , the Federal Court of Australia issued a landmark ruling that Sharman, though not itself guilty of copyright infringement, had "authorized" Kazaa users illegally to swap copyrighted songs. The court ruled six defendants—including Kazaa's owners Sharman Networks, Sharman's Sydney-based boss Nikki Hemming and associate Kevin Bermeister —had knowingly allowed Kazaa users illegally to swap copyrighted songs.
The company was ordered to modify the software within two months a ruling enforceable only in Australia. Sharman and the other five parties faced paying millions of dollars in damages to the record labels that instigated the legal action. On 5 December , the Federal Court of Australia ceased downloads of Kazaa in Australia after Sharman Networks failed to modify their software by the 5 December deadline. Sharman planned to appeal against the Australian decision, but ultimately settled the case as part of its global settlement with the record labels and studios in the United States.
Sharman Networks responded with a lawsuit against the RIAA, alleging that the terms of use of the network were violated and that unauthorized client software such as Kazaa Lite, see below was used in the investigation to track down the individual file sharers.
An effort to throw out this suit was denied in January However, that suit was also settled in see above. Welcome Guest, Login Register. Get Updates on Kazaa Lite Tweet. Kazaa Lite , Downloads.
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