Download service Kazaa in face-off with record industry

Solicitors for Australia’s recording industry branded the popular Kazaa computer file-swapping network “an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen” as they launched a court battle today to shut down its activities.

Kazaa’s owners claim the network’s 100 million worldwide users download 3 billion files each month, said Tony Bannon, representing Australia’s six major record labels.