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Originally Posted by irseg
I don't think there are any laws that would apply to Kazaa for "enabling certain illegal computer acts". I sure hope not, anyway. The article you mentioned was about California being ruled a valid jurisdiction to carry out a lawsuit against Kazaa. Anybody can sue anybody for pretty much whatever they want, it doesn't mean there's any validity to the case or that the defendant actually did anything wrong.
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The decision means that the lawsuits against Kazaa look valid under California (and national and international) law. Read my post above for the specific laws about producing, having, or markeing a divice or service that circumvents legal ownership.
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Originally Posted by irseg
If such laws existed then by the same logic they would apply to keyboard and mouse manufacturers (enabling the installation of Kazaa and search/download of copyrighted content), hard drive companies (storage of said content), modems, and so on.
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No. The divice or service must directly circumvent legal owndership laws. Kazaa markets itself as a p2p network where you can download songs and video files and such. It is
primarily used to circumvent the law. It is illegal because of this. The people who use the p2p networks to traffic in pirated files are also guilty, as they have broken copyright laws. The lawsuit is not frivelous.