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KaZaa Ignores Court Order to Shut Down
An anonymous reader submitted that "The Amsterdam district court ruled two weeks ago that the KaZaa P2P program is acting unlawfully by making software available that allows users to download music files and must shut down. The court gave the company 14 days to do this or face $40,000 US a day in fines. KaZaa has chosen to ignore the shutdown order."
Whoohoo!
One wonders what's going to happen when the legion of black-robed LEO ninjas descend en masse to phsyically shut down Kazaa, however.
Actually, all it would take is a court order and a guy with a pair of diagonal cutters at their backbone connection's origin.
Still, it's nice to see that even companies are beginning to realized how screwed and skewed copyright law is.
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Kazaa is an old word for cat. It's in some ancient european/german language. I can't find the reference but some good KH can surely make a nice google search. I guess they were reffering to napster in a way. Also Kazaa was formely Opennap for those of you who didn't know. Hmm.. or was it music city, I don't remeber anymore. anyway they begun as a part of the opennap network and when napster died - they florished. Whan they die someone else will take over ad infinitum.. or at least untill the RIAA gives up or we all are dead.. whichever comes first.. sorry for the fuzzyness I'm tired.. :) ..
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Guns are often used illegally, yet that is not their only use... nobody persecutes gun manufacturers
Where have you been? Brady bill, one month rule, waiting period, mandatory trigger lock, country-of-origin regulations on some components, many types totally outlawed, lawsuits brought by idiots and not thrown out by the judge, the list goes on...
Now, I'm not suggesting that we go back to the days of people walking into Virginia gun shops, buying 2 dozen cheap handguns and then driving them up 95 to be sold on the streets of NYC. However, the idea of a mandatory trigger lock is ridiculous. It's even more silly to sue the company because you were irresponsable enough to leave your gun lying around with your kids or because some other guy was evil enough to shoot you.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Re: Netscape
You certainly lived in a different world than I did back then. Netscape of the time was buggy and slow (and a real memory pig by the standards of the day). It also had a bunch of not quite standard standards and dubious features (blink for instance).
Then IE came along and did exactly the same thing, except IE was free (even though nobody ever actually paid for Netscape) and got bundled with the OS to insure market success.
I read the internet for the articles.