Kazaa crunched by copyright suits

The company that brought you Kazaa says it can't afford costly fights with the record industry. Meanwhile, people using the Kazaa network contend with worms disguised as music or movie files, songs that come with a price tag, and ads.

Kazaa, Morpheus legal case collapsing
The companies behind such popular file-swapping software are feeling the financial strain of fighting entertainment giants in court, and it appears they may be going the way of Napster.
May 22, 2002

Kazaa worm adds sour note to file swaps
update Posing as pirated versions of popular songs and films, the Benjamin worm tries to fool people into downloading it and then infects their computers.
May 20, 2002

Paid content comes to Kazaa
Live from Kazaa...it's Altnet. Download a file, and you may see songs for sale and ads linked to searches. The program, from Brilliant Digital, launches amid much controversy.
May 19, 2002

Kazaa finds friends in file-swapping fight
Computer and telecommunication giants are pushing a proposal shouldered until now by file-swapping upstarts: Make downloading a song online as legal as listening to the radio.
May 16, 2002