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Reuters: Taiwan Court Convicts Music Sharing Service Kuro
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Dioneae muscipula
Sep 9, 2005, 8:03:55 PM9/9/05
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On September 9, 2005, Jeffrey Goldfarb reported for Reuters that a
Taiwan court convicted the service Kuro of criminal copyright
infringement and sentenced its operators to jail terms up to 3 years.
Taiwan court convicted the service Kuro of criminal copyright
infringement and sentenced its operators to jail terms up to 3 years.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-09-09T113744Z_01_EIC941762_RTRIDST_0_NET-MEDIA-MUSIC-TAIWAN-DC.XML
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry,
this was the first criminal conviction of a peer-to-peer file sharing
service.
An Australian court ruled last week that popular Internet file-sharing
network Kazaa breached copyright laws, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
in June that services like Grokster and Morpheus can be held liable if
they promote copyright infringement of songs and movies.
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