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From Kazaa Owner Complains of Copyright Infringement – Chilling Effects Clearinghouse - Kazaa owners Sherman Networks have directed Google to block access to 15 sites that they maintain contain unauthorized copies or unauthorized derivatives of Kazaa Media Desktop (a peer to peer network sharing client). Ok, aside from the DMCA issues (which are huge…) I find it highly ironic that the makers of a p2p(peer to peer) sharing scheme are in essence leveling the exact same complaint against Google (a search engine) that was leveled against them by the RIAA: their service/software points to/finds/facilitates piracy. Doesn’t Sherman etc. think this action basically legitimizes the RIAA case against them?
As for Google… a search on google for Kazaa now has a note at the bottom (I would urge Google to put it at the top of the page):
“In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.”
complete with a link to the chillingeffect.org page listing the complaint and so listing the missing results.