Is KaZaA going down? Any info?

News Wire - KaZaA ^ | 1-16-02

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Wednesday January 16, 7:26 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: KaZaA KaZaA Suspends Downloads AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2002--KaZaA BV is voluntarily and temporarily suspending downloads of the KaZaA Media Desktop software from its Web site pending the decision of the Dutch court on January 31, 2002. For more information visit www.kazaa.com. About KaZaA KaZaA (www.kazaa.com) offers a portfolio of software and products enabling the digital media revolution of instant access to files anytime, anywhere, all based on its leading peer-to-peer media platform from FastTrack.

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We're writing a law review article with a dealine of tomorrow on Napster, KaZaA and FastTrack. Tonight, Yahoo reported that KaZaA was taking down their system until January 31 court date. However, News Wire made Yahoo pull the story and there is no news on the KaZaA site. Any Freepers know what is going on? Thanks!

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Why would they close Kazaa? I only use it to trade recipes, nothing else. I thought that is what everyone used Kazaa for. hehe

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Any ideas on whether they are closing? Once they lock up KaZaA, they could go for the other 2 FastTrack licensees. There must be word out there, but I suppose we should be asking the Dutch, not Americans.

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That's the problem with posting after 10:00 pm Pacific Time. The rest of the country is asleep except the left coast, which may favor online suppression of activity.