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Shutting down Kazaa
An anonymous reader writes "There is an interesting wired.com article on the fight between the world's media corporations and Kazaa. The lengths Kazaa has gone to to keep itself immune from attack (incorporated variously in Vanuatu (where?), Estonia and Australia), seem to have largely paid off - until now."
Its crap. Especially compared to DC++...
You're doing as good a job bringing down P2P as RIAA/MPAA, you arrogant shit.
By keeping your shared content in stupid circle-jerk setups like that, and keeping Joe Average out, you're effectively ceding the rank-and-file P2P networks to leeches and the RIAA. Which means the RIAA wins.
I know it's all cool to post on Slashdot about how fucking 1337 you are with your 10Mb connection and massive 50-machine home network, and it's just really fucking OUTSTANDING to be arrogant and condescending about how much smarter you are than Windoze Lozers because you run LUNIX.
I know it feels good to be in a stratified plane of existance because you have such 1337 harware, so you only share your massive collections with other arrogant shitheads like yourself. It's a penis-size contest, but without the refreshing honesty of just dropping your drawers and whipping out the actual units.
Meanwhile, P2P networks like Kazaa are seeded with absolute shit by anti-Peer companies and choked by leeches. As that continues, Joe Average will get so frustrated trying to find decent stuff that he'll give up "on that whole Napster thing".
Bang. RIAA wins.
Instead of being the technological equivalent of a fat, rich white businessman in an exclusive golf resort bragging to each other about how fucking rich you are, you should actually stick your neck out and help keep decent content on the P2P networks.
But you're a Slashdot whore, and lord knows Slashdot whores just love being fucking arrogant, condescending pricks.
Fuck you.
if only i had some mod points for you to bring you out of flamebait land
you are absolutely right about every point