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Hail To The Thief: A Tribute To Kazaa, Matthew Rimmer Mar 2005

Hail To The Thief: A Tribute To Kazaa, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

This paper considers the ongoing litigation against the peer to peer network Kazaa. Record companies and Hollywood studios have faced jurisdictional and legal problems in suing this network for copyright infringement. As Wired Magazine observes: 'The servers are in Denmark. The software is in Estonia. The domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on a tiny island in the South Pacific. The users - 60 million of them - are everywhere around the world.' In frustration, copyright owners have launched copyright actions against intermediaries - like Internet Service Providers such as Verizon. They have also embarked on filing suits of …


Davidson & Associates, Inc. V. Internet Gateway, Inc. ("Bnetd"), Eighth Circuit, Brief Of Amici Curiae Consumers Union And Public Knowledge In Support Of Internet Gateway, Inc., Tim Jung, Ross Combs And Rob Crittenden, Laura Quilter, Jennifer Urban, Deirdre Mulligan Jan 2005

Davidson & Associates, Inc. V. Internet Gateway, Inc. ("Bnetd"), Eighth Circuit, Brief Of Amici Curiae Consumers Union And Public Knowledge In Support Of Internet Gateway, Inc., Tim Jung, Ross Combs And Rob Crittenden, Laura Quilter, Jennifer Urban, Deirdre Mulligan

Laura Quilter

Amicus brief to the Eighth Circuit.


Davidson & Associates, Inc. V. Internet Gateway, Inc. ("Bnetd"), Eighth Circuit, Brief Of Amici Curiae Consumers Union And Public Knowledge In Support Of Internet Gateway, Inc., Tim Jung, Ross Combs And Rob Crittenden, Laura Quilter, Jennifer Urban, Deirdre Mulligan Jan 2005

Davidson & Associates, Inc. V. Internet Gateway, Inc. ("Bnetd"), Eighth Circuit, Brief Of Amici Curiae Consumers Union And Public Knowledge In Support Of Internet Gateway, Inc., Tim Jung, Ross Combs And Rob Crittenden, Laura Quilter, Jennifer Urban, Deirdre Mulligan

Jennifer M. Urban

Amicus brief to the Eighth Circuit.