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KaZaA Resumes Downloads, Company Sold?
Robert Johnson writes "According to an article on Dotcom Scoop, popular file-sharing service KaZaA may have been sold over the weekend.
"As of last week the company was based in the Netherlands. However, upon close examination of its new terms of use license, the company now says, "This License as well as all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the New South Wales, without regard to or application of choice of law rules or principles. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with this License, or in future agreements resulting there from, shall be exclusively resolved before the competent court in New South Wales," the article states. New South Wales is an Australian state."
Update Apparently the website reverted to the former content
which might raise a few eyebrows. Update: 01/21 18:17 GMT by T : DotcomScoop writes: "KaZaA isssued a statement regarding its sale after our story was published." Here is the statement and a little more info.
will this be good or bad for KaZaA?
{TheT3chfreak}
Seems to me that Australia is well on it's way to beating China at Internet control. You think perhaps Kazaa moving / being sold to a company in Australia might cause a nasty problem?
SIG: HUP
my linux client wont login at all, just sits 'connecting...'. (some suggested that the linux client logs in as anon and continues as always)
:)
.0401
:)
since there's no way to get at more interactive or per-peer user functions in the linux client (and you dont have to see advertising!) it doesnt much matter that you're anonymous (at least it didnt matter to me
trying to sign up again as a new user doesnt work either. and there seems to be no new version for linux to download on the site.
do others have a different version for linux?
mine was 294517 Dec 18 17:52 kza.linux.tar.gz
which calls itself
(if yours works, can, i uh, get a copy?