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KaZaa Suspends Downloads

Posted by timothy on from the put-it-next-to-your-decss-mirror dept.

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?"

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  1. KaZaA still up -- I think by ciurana · · Score: 2, Troll

    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
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    http://eugeneciurana.com | http://ciurana.eu
  2. Re:The legal system, etc. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Troll

    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.