KaZaA is a major thorn in the sides of the music and motion picture industries. Since KaZaA is not located in the U.S., it is hard to get them into U.S. courts. They're going to try anyway [here]. There are a couple of big issues that need to be tackled. What jurisdiction do U.S. laws have on the Internet? Does a company that does not actually infringe copyright laws, but makes it possible have a liability?

Under the copyright law of most countries, people who use software like KaZaA to download copyrighted material from each other would almost certainly be liable for infringement. The conflict is over whether distributing software that makes it easy for people to break the law is itself a copyright violation.

It will be fun to see how this plays out.
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