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Kazaa Continues to Evolve

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gotta-make-some-money dept.

Zephy writes "The New York Times (free registration etc.. ) has an article about a new partnership between Kazaa, and Tiscali, the European internet access provider. Seems that Kazaa will carry ads for Tiscali's broadband services in return for a cash 'bounty' when a user signs up for broadband. To quote the article, 'This gives legitimacy to KaZaA.' Also, Cnet has an article about the new Kazaa version which has features designed to help users avoid corrupt or wrong files such as those spread around p2p by the MP/RIAA."

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  1. Rating System by SealBeater · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Quick question on the rating system. What's to stop the same people who are
    saturating KaZaa with false files to simply rate good files negatively? That
    way, they don't even have to flood the network, all they have to do is stomp on
    a file at a time and nobody is going to download it to see if it's good or not.
    Is the rating system simply going to make it easier for companies to steer
    people away from good files?

    SealBeater

    --
    -- Its survival of the fittest...and we got the fucking guns!!!
  2. Tiscali == Full of FTP Abusers by Frater+219 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Perhaps this will cut down on the number of port-21 scans I see from Tiscali. At present, they're one of the largest sources of scans for open anonymous FTP servers, right behind Wanadoo. The abusers are looking for FTP servers that allow both upload and download in the same directory. When they find them, they fill them up with warez, porn, and movies.

    Now, you may think, hey, free warez, porn, and movies ... but I'll bet you don't work for a site with a few hundred technically bright but security-dumb scientists. These folks like open FTP because it makes it easy to collaborate and share data, but they don't like having their disks fill up with blowjob MPEGs.

    So if Tiscali can get its warezers and pr0nsters running Kazaa and shoving spyware onto each other's systems all day, maybe they will go away and leave my users' port 21 alone.

  3. I'll be glad when kazaa dies.. by Suppafly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As someone who has to do network support, nothing is worse than a computer which has had kazaa and the accompaning spyware installed. That new.net crap ruins the winsock stuff forcing a total reinstall, and those spyware proxys have people complaining about QoS when its the proxy which is providing the crappy service. I await the day we come to /. to bury kazaa, not to praise it.