Kazaa ordered to stop piracy

An Australian federal court decided that the company that runs the Kazaa P2P Web site encouraged its users to infringe copyright, the BBC reports. The court ordered Kazaa's owners, Sharman Networks, to modify the software within two months to stop the sharing of copyrighted material. "A fresh round of hearings will now be held to determine the level of damages, which could run into the millions of dollars," the BBC added. The Fastrack network Kazaa uses makes up only about 10% of all file-sharing traffic. A new study by UK P2P traffic measurers CacheLogic also found that music is now the "little guy" on the file-sharing networks, making up just 11% of all file-sharing traffic. Video, reports Silicon.com, now constitutes "almost 62% of all traffic on the four largest P2P networks (BitTorrent, eDonkey, Gnutella and Fastrack, the network used by Kazaa." The remaining 27% is mostly games and software.