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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. KAZZA LITE by t1gger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I too agree I use the Kazza lite version and have no problems with it. The only real glitch is when you download movies and find that they are not the ones the titles say they are. I am so sick and tired of downloading eddie murphy movies :-)

  2. Re:Rating System by squaretorus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MetaModeration! Thats your solution. Having even a relatively small group of trusted metamoderators to kill 'wrong-raters' rate rights will go some way to stopping this from happenning.

    Particularly if you have an automated system to rate down any rater who rates an item as poor when 90% rate it highly.

  3. Bitzi an open alternative for ratings, metadata by gojomo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Kazaa's new rating feature mimics what my company, Bitzi, has been offering for many months.

    Further, our file ratings and metadata is freely reusable in any P2P program or other application, under a DMOZ-like license.