Kent Pribbernow
03-05-2004, 01:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115083,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115083,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div>An Australian judge has ruled that evidence seized from Sharman Networks, owner of widely popular P2P software KaZaa, by the Australian Recording Industry Association may be admissible in court. Sharman contended that the ARIA deliberately misled the presiding judge into approving the raid upon its corporate offices, as well as the homes of executive officers. While the order was set aside, Judge Murray Rutledge Wilcox is giving the green light to all evidence culled from the raid. <br /><br />I'm not a lawyer myself, but I really don't see where Sharman Networks has a legal leg to stand on. They, as well as the rest of the free world, knows its software is enabling the propagation of music piracy, and other copyrighted material.