November 24, 2002
KaZaA in Court to Decide Jurisdiction

Tomorrow, a Federal Court in LA will decide whether KaZaA distributor Sharman Networks, incorporated on the island of Vanuatu and doing business in Australia, can be legally pursued by Hollywood in the U.S. Sharman does no business in the US, but its peer-to-peer technology vendor, Blastoise (dba Joltid, and founded by Niklas Zennström, also a founder of Kazaa/FastTrack) is located in the U.S. If Sharman loses, their case may be added into the Streamcast and Grokster case, and might be an interesting comment on jurisdiction involving Internet business disputes.

Posted by Mary Hodder at November 24, 2002 06:51 PM
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Yahoo reports the U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson as being supportive of the movie studio's lawsuit against KaZaA's parent company taking place in the US.

Posted by: Mary Hodder on November 28, 2002 10:10 AM
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