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Kazaa Faces Decisive Ultimatum Another dead-line for filesharing	By Adrian Stanciu, Sci-Tech News Editor 25th of November 2005, 21:08 GMT Adjust text size:


An Australian court has decided to give the Kazaa file-sharing network an ultimatum, so the company behind the application will have to include a special filter in the software by December 5th, which will allow it to block searches of certain keywords. If the software will not be modified by that time, the company will have to shut it down. This decision follows another one, made back in September, when the court decided that all users of the Kazaa file sharing application were breaching copyright laws. The application needed to be changed and deny users the right to search for media content that is protected by copyright. The court has ordered Sharman Networks, Kazaa's operators, to release a new version of the software by 5 December, that includes a non-optional keyword filter, which is based on a database containing about 3.000 keywords. If the company doesn't comply with these requests, it faces imminent shut down of the file-sharing software.

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Comment #1 by: rommey on 27 Nov 2005, 04:42 GMT	reply to this comment
How come no one ever mentions anything about Limewire? Aren't they in the same filesharing business has Kazaa? Something fishy going on here. Any thoughts appreciated.

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