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Kazaa purchase exposed in copyright trial

An Australian judge has thrown out a request to block media and music industry access to a document that specifies how much Sharman Networks paid for the Kazaa peer-to-peer software. The lawyer for Altnet, a company allegedly associated with Sharman, had asked the court to make the order in relation to numerous documents originally seized last year under civil search …

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RIAA sues 717 file

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said Thursday that it had filed 717 new lawsuits against alleged file-swappers, including 68 unnamed people at universities. The suits come several days after the record label group filed its arguments with the Supreme Court in a case examining the broader legal liability of file-swapping software companies. Movie studios also filed their own …

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