Recording industry raids on Kazaa offices
I haven't been following this story recently but I'd thought that Kazaa had somehow managed to sidestep any responsibility in contrast to the way Napster had been held responsible because of inherent differences in the way this P2P service was set up. According to this AP story on the Wall Street Journal site (subscription required):
Investigators from the Australian record industry Friday raided the Sydney office of the company that owns Kazaa, the world's largest file-swapping network, in a bid to uncover evidence of alleged copyright infringements.
The Federal Court gave five major Australian record labels permission to raid 12 premises in three Australian states to collect evidence against Kazaa, said Michael Speck, general manager of the Music Industry Piracy Investigations, a group is owned by record companies Universal, Festival Mushroom Records, EMI Music, Sony Music, Warner Music Australia and BMG Australia.