CULTURAS IN VITRO
Music Industry in Global Fight on Web Copies
Having vanquished the music swapping service Napster in court, the entertainment industry is facing a formidable obstacle in pursuing its major successor, KaZaA: geography.
Sharman Networks, the distributor of the program, is incorporated in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and managed from Australia. Its computer servers are in Denmark and the source code for its software was last seen in Estonia.
KaZaA's original developers, who still control the underlying technology, are thought to be living in the Netherlands — although entertainment lawyers seeking to have them charged with violating United States copyright law have been unable to find them.