This news comes despite the apparent popularity of KaZaA outside of the US, where there are just 106 million households, less than half the number of copies of KaZaA that have been downloaded.While Sharman is upset with the situation, it's these open networks, like Kazaa Lite, that have allowed file-sharing to grow. Meanwhile, in Europe, a report last week from IDC said that legitimate music downloading over the Internet will grow into a €1.3 billion business in Europe by 2007, accounting for 13 per cent of all music sales. Dozens of other music piracy-related actions are currently underway throughout the world. The record labels also recently won a music piracy case against ISP Version Communications that sought to force the ISP to reveal the names of customers allegedly engaged in music theft. The Recording Industry Association of America has had a few victories of its own in recent weeks, including a settlement with a number of students in the US who have agreed to pay more than $10,000 each for designing and running file-swapping services. However, there is no sign that the battle between file swappers, those that facilitate file swapping, and the music industry, which accuses them of piracy, will end soon. The company said that the news comes at a key period in the peer-to-peer industry's evolution, noting that in April 2003 a US District Court in California effectively ruled that file-sharing applications are legal.
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