Kazaa ruled to be illegal

Kazaa, the popular file sharing software, has losed in Australia court. The court said Kazaa has not breached copyright itself, but it did encourage the users to do so. This is actually not the first case. The Australia court has followed similar judgement from Grokster’s case in June in US Spreme Court.

Grokster has been held liable for copyright infringement. This time, Kazaa also faced similar judegement. The court said Kazaa should do something, such as keyword filtering, to filter the copyrighted information.

There are raising concern about copyright infrigement in recent days. Many recording and software companies tried to sue for those Peer-to-peer technology for sharing illegal stuff.

There are many other ways to share the music legally on the web. For example, Apple iTunes Music Store is one of the legal music downloads on the web.

But many people would feel that “Internet should all be free”. What if all the peer-to-peer software are sued? I think it would not stop illegal sharing on the web. People would still try to find other way out in order to share the softwares, music, movie within their own community.