Australian court has given Kazaa two months to stop copyrighted material from being shared through its network. Court found file-sharing copyrighted material over the network was illegal.

"Both the user who makes the file available and the user who downloads a copy infringes the owner's copyright," the ruling stated. "Kazaa has to be legitimate or disappear".

Kazaa is a Peer-to-Peer software, which allows users to connect to a huge network of files, and exchange music, movies & other copyrighted files, without any restriction. Which in the last few years have made music fans aviod expense of buying a CD.

Basically this decision requires Kazaa to make changes in the Software and issue a new version, where the copyrighted material is to be filtered out. After two months, the users will be compulsorily be required to upgrade to the new version.

This decision comes on similar lines of 2001 Napster decision, who was ordered by US court to stop users from swapping copyrighted files, which led to the closure of Napster. Though later Napster was re-launched as paid service in compliance of US Laws.

Kazaa also has faced a similar case in Netherlands in 2001, after which it shifted its base to Australia, where they have again faced the ruling... which can just lead to their closure like Napster.

Ofcourse, such P2P softwares violate Indian Copyright Laws also... hindi music and movies are very easily available over the network of various P2P softwares. But banning of such softwares in India is not expected in the near future.