Kazaa Admits to Morpheus Shutdown

An Anonymous Coward writes: "KaZaa yesterday admitted to CNET that it was behind the shutout of Morpheus from the FastTrack network. Their reason? The company didn't pay its bills. Still, there has to be more to it than that for KaZaa to cut them off so quickly and unexpectedly, especially since a P2P network's power lies in the size of its audience. There is some weird cat-and-mouse play going on here that can only be damaging to both sides in the upcoming trial against the RIAA and MPAA in California."

Comments

Damaging to them or covering their own ass?

[dave-fu]

"Your honor, we publically stated that we cut them off for non-payment but the _real_ reason we terminated their feed into our systems is because they refused to respect the rights of copyright holders. And doggone it, we just can't abide by that!"
See also: AOL vs. Aimster...

When Free Music Fanatics Form A Firing Squad...

[Anonymous Coward]

... it looks like they stand in a circle!

Maybe Morpheus was just sharing the Kazaa software

[jp93023]

Why pay for a software license when you can just share the goods for nothing? Kazaa just doesn't get it!

Re:oh, come on...

[edrugtrader]

but they provided free music... they shouldn't have to pay their bills. thus conspiracy.

morons

[slapshot]

my favorite quote...
"...especially since a P2P network's power lies in the size of its audience"

obviously not...if you pull the plug

Speedy Resolution

[crow_t_robot]

Gee Whiz! I hope that all of this gets resolved before the new Britney Spears album comes out. What a predicament!

Re:Gnutella will not suck

[Skirwan]

If Morpheus can use the Gnutella network together with all their aparatus of media file meta-information, and multiple segmented downloading, and if they use the hyper-cube network approach, rather than the tree one, it will simply rocks, and no one will be able to stop it when it begins.

And if pigs can fly, and I can ride one, and they fly me to hell, and it just froze over, and we all have ice cream...

--
Damn the Emperor!

Re:It's not the reason, it's the method.

[Anonymous Coward]

> It's the users' right to choose who can and
> cannot connect to their computers

Because they're paying...oh, wait a minute. Because it's not like other computers are connecting...oh, wait a minute.

Re:Gnutella will not suck

[talonyx]

"And if pigs can fly, and I can ride one, and they fly me to hell, and it just froze over, and we all have ice cream..."

I really need to stop reading Slashdot while on codeiene.....

Orrin Hatch disagrees with you

[abe ferlman]

You know, conservative Senator from Utah, former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee? I believe he even helped write the DMCA.

Go look up Hilary Rosen's Senate testimony regarding Napster, and read the exchange between them. Orrin says basically "is it fair use if I make a copy for my wife to play in her car?" Rosen hems and haws, and Hatch says something to the effect of "It is."

Now, sharing anonymously over a network is a whole different ball of wax, and that's what's got the RIAA and MPAA in a tizzy.

Re:oh, come on...

[jhanson]

I imagine it went something like this:
Kazaa: Morpheus, you better pay up.
Morpheus: We don't have any money, would you accept payment in mp3z and pr0n?
Kazaa: Get off my network you deadbeat!