A witness in the ongoing civil trial against peer-to-peer software provider Sharman Networks has added weight to testimony that logs can be maintained to trace users who are exchanging unlicensed music online using the Kazaa software. Professor Leon Sterling, chair of Software Innovation and Engineering for the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering in the University of Melbourne, said Tuesday in the Federal Court in Sydney that statistics about the activity of users in a distributed system--such as Kazaa--are "capable of being collected and reported to a system operator in the same way as statistics about the usage of a single Web site are able to be collected and reported."
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Dec 7, 2004, 08:41 AM
