In response Consumer Empowerment sold the Kazaa application to Sharman Networks, headquartered in Australia and incorporated in Vanuatu. In October 2001 a lawsuit was filed against Consumer Empowerment by members of the music and motion picture industry in the USA. The court ordered Kazaa's owners to take steps to prevent its users from violating copyrights or else pay a heavy fine. During the years of Kazaa's operation, Sharman Networks and its business partners and associates were the target of copyright-related lawsuits, related to the copyright of content distributed via Kazaa Media Desktop on the FastTrack protocol.īy August 2012, the Kazaa website was no longer active.Ĭonsumer Empowerment was sued in the Netherlands in 2001 by the Dutch music publishing body, Buma/Stemra.
The Kazaa Media Desktop client could be downloaded free of charge however, it was bundled with adware and for a period there were "No spyware" warnings found on Kazaa's website. Kazaa Media Desktop was commonly used to exchange MP3 music files and other file types, such as videos, applications, and documents over the Internet. According to one of its creators, Jaan Tallinn, Kazaa is pronounced ka-ZAH (/kəˈzaː/). Kazaa was subsequently under license as a legal music subscription service by Atrinsic, Inc. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks. Kazaa Media Desktop (once stylized as " KaZaA", but later usually written " Kazaa") was a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd.
Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.
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