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Kazaa Conundrum -- The Plot Thickens

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-pudding-getting-thicker dept.

Robotech_Master writes "The ever continuing Kazaa controversy just keeps getting better. This article on Wired highlights Brilliant Digital Entertainment, the company that brokered Kazaa's sale to the Australian firm, and indicates that the RIAA is investigating them."

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  1. Re:The more the RIAA tightens its grip... by dattaway · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The RIAA is 'investigating' this company?

    The RIAA is investigating just like Microsoft investigates Linux. Anyone can hire detectives and thugs to do some "detective" work.

  2. Re:The more the RIAA tightens its grip... by Stary · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Detrermining which host if the fastest so the majority of the file is downloaded from them would be a bit more tricky though. You'd have to have a test download file, or calculate who is the fastest after the file has started downloading.

    No, I don't think that should be needed... Just start from the beginning of the file from one host. Download a few blocks and see how fast it goes, and then calculate where to start the second download from the speed and number of hosts available.

    Actually I'm quite surprised it hasn't been done already...

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  3. I'm confused by Kallahar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The new Morpheus is assumed to have spyware and tracking built into it, right? Well... It's GPL'd and the source code is available... So... _IS_ there tracking?

    On a related note, how do we know that the source code available is actually the same that was used to compile the binary version available for download?