Expert Witness Says Kazaa Could Monitor Users
Giving evidence in the copyright infringement case brought against Kazaa by
the Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) body, expert witness Professor
Leon Sterling suggested that the peer-to-peer software provider could monitor
the file sharing activities of its users, if necessary. Speaking in Sydney's federal court, Professor Sterling, chair of Software Innovation
and Engineering for the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
at the University of Melbourne suggested that user activity statistics can be
"collected and reported to a system operator in the same way as statistics
about the usage of a single website are able to be collected and reported". He went on to add that: "Kazaa Media Desktop (KMD) could easily collect statistics that could
be gathered at supernodes if it does not do so already." Although he suggested that it would be relatively straightforward to collect
the information required to track user downloads in the form of an activity
log, he reportedly acknowledged under cross-examination that he hadn't examined
in detail the timeframe or cost necessary to implement his suggestions. A comprehensive report in our Intelligence Report series describing the offshore e-commerce regimes in many key jurisdictions is available in the Lowtax Library at http://www.lowtaxlibrary.com/asp/subs_reports.asp and a description of the report can be seen at http://www.lowtaxlibrary.com/asp/description_report6.asp
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