KaZaa Suspends Downloads

chill writes: "'Download Temporarily Suspended -- Download of the KaZaA Media Desktop software is temporarily and voluntarily suspended pending Dutch court decision on January 31. We apologise for the inconvenience. Please check back at www.kazaa.com for more information.' --- Both the Linux and Windows client downloads are offline. I wonder what the judge thinks this will do to the tens, if not hundreds of thousands who already have the software?"

Comments

Yay!!!

[ecliptik]

Ha!! All this time I just thought it was our shitty shitty school network admins here at my campus and their inability to properly configure routers and firewalls!!!

What will they do?

[Hatechall]

WinMX
Audiogalaxy
Morpheous
Bearshare
LimeWire
Should I go on? Not to mention that only shutting off the server and only shutting off the front end application is like someone giving out cheat sheets to a test and the instructor later telling everyone not to use them.
But I'm sure that the Einstein-like geneouses in the RIAA/MPAA are on top of the situation. Don't worry folks.

KaZaA still up -- I think

[ciurana]

Greetings!

I just logged on to KaZaA, did a search on 'Spears' and lots of images, MP3s, videos, etc. are available for download. Could someone please explain?

Thanks,

E

Re:Who cares?

[Choose Wisely]

I disagree. I tried it, but much to my disappointment, both the daemon and the user interface crashed repeatedly. It was really a shoddy piece of software, not that that's a first for the Linux community or anything.

Re:Just get Morpheus

[Choose Wisely]

The Linux client is junk (much like a good amount of Linux software out there). Both the daemon and the UI crash constantly. You're surely better off sticking with something like GTK-Gnutella if you are really forced into using Linucks.

Re:The legal system, etc.

[Anonymous Coward]

it is amazing how human nature often allows people to discard rational logic to justify their actions. unfortunately, this issue isn't as moral unambiguous as people would like to believe. you (along with thousands of others) are saying that "the law allows obsolete business practices" regarding this issue. it's amazing that the _protection and preservation one's rightful property_ transformed overnight from an inalienable human right acknowledged by almost every society (though not by every political system) throughout time, into an "obsolete business practice." in reality, these immutable liberties haven't changed. what has changed is that technology stripped theivery of its legal reprecussions and made it amazingly easy.

i especially like the quote, "hurting a lot of ... innovators in the process." file-sharing systems are indeed innovative. selling drugs on the street was innovative once too. planting a bomb in your shoe was an innovative form of terrorism. i think you get the point. the only good that can come of these innovations, is that steps can be taken to protect individuals from these threats to their natural liberties of life and livelyhood.

a change in the system doesn't justify the violation of these most basic human rights. we're nothing more than looters using technology to our advantage, grabbing everything we can because we know there will be no reprecussions later on. we can't blind ourselves with these false arguments, or criticize the system for putting an end to our exploits.

if the record companies/movie studios successfully utilize the law in order to preserve their rightful property, i applaud them.

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[baron000]

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Re:ill bite

[afedaken]

Discounting your second paragraph, which falls under fair use clauses, what you're saying is that once something has been created once, that because we are capable of copying it, that the creator can not reasonably expect to be rewarded for his work.

You sir are a LEECH.

It's precidely this sort of attitude that Copyright is designed to thwart. While we *CAN* infinately reproduce almost any work created, in the end, removing the incentives and rewards of creating will lead to a decline in creation. Intellectual Property is indeed an artifical coneccpt, one designed to foster and promote creation. It has a place in any society that decides that promoting creation is in it's economic and social interest.

I'll agree to the idea that the powers that be are abusing the concept of Copyright, (yes, the RIAA is trying to protect itself, and it's monopoly on the distribution of music, they're not attempting to foster the creation of music....) but that doesen't justify deliberately flaunting the law, nor taking away from the creators the rightful earnings.

When you say "I copy all my music CDs", you're comitting piracy plain and simple. You don't wanna give the RIAA or the artists your money? Fine. Then don't buy any CD's, see any movies, or consume any other media. If you don't PAY for it, and you don't get it via available LEGAL means, you're still not entitled to STEAL it."