Kazaa Conundrum -- The Plot Thickens

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."

Comments

FP!!!

[KenSentMe]

First post? Maybe... go ahead...

Re:On the topic of reclaiming Slashdot:

[kharchenko]

jeez man, just use sorting by comment ratings. User-driven moderation is what this forum is all about. If you constantly disagree with the rating results you see, well - then this isn't your community.

Re:On the topic of reclaiming Slashdot:

[jguevin]

My personal experience: ever since I changed my default threshold to 2, I see almost none of what you're complaining about. A good 60%-70% of what I read at 3 or above is relevant, meaningful, or at least funny. The moderation system has it flaws, but mostly for individuals who are concerned that they are "justly" rewarded for their contributions; the trolls seem to get slapped down before I even get to the story.

Re:On the topic of reclaiming Slashdot:

[Dynedain]

posting with my account because i'm not afraid of karma burn.....

Just read comments at a +2 filter! duh! Sheesh man, when there's a system in place that avoids/controlls an issue, use it instead of babbling on about developing a new one. Thats just like a politician

Re:On the topic of reclaiming Slashdot:

[waspleg]

stupid moderators are worse than trolls, and they sometimes and often are trolls themselves (since trolls can karma whore just as well as anyone else).. some other form of moderation is needed.. people should be able to read threads and posts as they were posted not as they have been modified by other people's opinions and as they deem necessary.. the moderation and lack of recourse or review of the results by sane persons makes it ideal for the abuse which it is often teh instrument of.

leave peoples posts the fuck alone, add customizable filters for shit like first posters and troll libraries and give people the option of using or NOT using them

good commentary and ideas are being lost to the masses because of the present chaos.

Re:On the topic of reclaiming Slashdot:

[Arcturax]

Ok at the risk of losing a bit of Karma (it won't kill me and I'm not a coward afraid to take a Karma hit) I am going to reply to this and suggest something to you. I suggest that if you have a rant like this, put it on your web page and post a link in your signature so people who are interested can go there and then comment on their own. You can also create your own Journal on here and link to that. Or go create a Live Journal and link to the discussion there. Otherwise you risk becoming a troll or part of the noise yourself like you have here.

P.S. Just to save you a bit of time, you won't get anywhere with this. The trolls are a necessary evil if there is to be no (or in this case I'd argue limited, via scoring) censorship here. If you don't like them, don't browse at -1 and if one got through, hit refresh, I bet it will be gone within 2 minutes as the moderators keep up.

Now back to the discussion at hand...

LNX is

[Anonymous Coward]

VARY Gay. 2 much 2 fix.
Sorry. :(

Re:Corporatism & the Police State

[CofWheat]

Bill Gates is God!!!!
all poer unto him!!!!

"AIW,YA;ASIA,YWB"
-HH

Make it affordable

[outlawstar]

As much as I want to respect the copyright on software, how can the average person who wants to fiddle with Photoshop afford $1000 for the program? Perhaps people would actually buy the software if companies started making prices more reasonable, and the licenses a little less restrictive (hint, hint MS)

Why stop there!

[slugfro]

You may also want to add in some other adjectives such as handsome, funny, buff, great smile, etc...

Examples:

• Brilliant Handsome with Great Smile Inc.
• Sincere Hilarious and Buff Inc.

This could be the key to geeks getting the girls!

Re:Why stop there!

[leviramsey]

I posted that while logged in... If Taco wants me to pay for this site, the login code should be fixed. If I'm paying for a login, I want to be logged in. I don't know it its a case of giving the wrong cookies, or the DB backend is being forgetful (that's what you get for running your business on MyISAM tables... if you're going to use MySQL, at least use InnoDB...), or what, but this needs to be fixed.

Too hard

[Penguinoflight]

I have wierd music tastes, therefore it's hard for me to find my music genre on CDs. Perhaps if the RIAA was doing a better job of classifying things, I'd buy more cds.

I like Classical Music (i.e. Mozart, Beethoven, etc.). But when I go to Best Buy, what do I find in the "Classical" section? 80's classics, 90's rock, etc. Last time I checked, Mozart lived in the seventeen hundreds.

Re:Too hard

[phyxeld]

"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World" - John 4:14

Hey! You like the bible, right? Can you tell me why Jesus has gotta curse fig trees? I mean, whats up with that?

And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! - Matthew 21:19

"And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it." - Mark 11:13

Jesus! Dude! The time of the figs was not yet! It wasn't fig season! You can't just go around cursing fig trees because they don't produce figs off-season. It's just not nice.

Also, by my source, you've got John 4:14 all wrong.
Isn't it "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."? Thats what it says here at least. It must be tough being christian with so many different bibles to choose from.

Re:Too hard

[xtremex]

It's FIRST John....The First Epistle to John, not the Gospel of John

Re:RIAA shows how evil it really is.

[bigmammoth]

so true. .. so true. . oh the pain. . its coming back. . forntuatlly 2k solves thouse issues :P ..

Re:Oh no...

[FooKuff]

I'm not. CD-R's, though, maybe. I've downloaded a fookload mp3s from www.emusic.com-- paid for and now mine legally. I'm not even sure I'll ever be able to listen to all of them. I also have about 300 CDs I've purchased in years past, plus vinyl and tapes. I don't think I have to leech from P2P or buy any new CDs for quite some time.