Dan Warne has published a firsthand account of the Sharman Networks trial process. Particularly interesting are his observations when final judgment was handed down by Wilcox J:
The finding that six of the ten defendants in the case were responsible for authorized users to infringe copyright infringement through the Kazaa software would have been kinda embarrassing after telling journalists for 18 months that the court would see through the music industry’s baseless claims.
Looks like they were expecting a win. Their lawyers gave a rather unconvincing statement describing the judgment as a “win for both parties”.
