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Kazaa Conundrum -- The Plot Thickens

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 4, 2002 @06:49AM 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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I'm confused by Kallahar · 2002-03-04 09:03 · 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?