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."

Comments

That means...

[Anonymous Coward]

I have some pr0n movies dl'ing over kazaa. They're going at around 0.5-2k/sec and been going for around a month. If they close it down then damn I'll be pissed.

Where?

[skroz]

How dare you! I plan to RETIRE to Vanuatu! With a land area slightly larger than Conneticut, a total population less than 200,000 people, and an economy based mostly on subsistence farming and, er, shady overseas financial deals (with a little tourism on the side,) what's not to love?

Please note the above comments about shady financial dealings, and ask yourself again why Kazaa is incorporated there.

For more information on vanuatu, see the CIA world Factbook.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geo s/ nh.html

Re:Where?

[nickclarke]

And you'll even be safe from George W Bush:
"the country has no known petroleum deposits"

Dude you are sooo L33T.

[glrotate]

I feel ashamed of my self just for reading your posts.

Re:Hehe, let em try.

[PyromanFO]

Its like that, only its a fraction of a penny and we do it a couple of million times. Whats wrong with that?

BTW, I use Kaaza, just a joke :)

Re:Out of genuine curiosity...

[Threni]

"Kazaa facilitates ilegal sharing of copyrighted materials. It should have been shut down long ago"

The internet/postal service/phone companies facilitates ilegal sharing of copyrighted materials. It/they should have been shut down long ago.

NOW do you see why your post looks stupid?

Flip the script

[TheJZA]

Is there a way that can we can just get rid off the MPAA instead.

Re:Bootstrapping?

[DarkZero]

Drug Dealing is bad ... what is stealing movies and distributing them? How about you go to a bank and rob them, then you give out the money to everyone who asks for it, does that make it right?

Please list some of the names of the poor, unfortunate souls that have died from intellectual property overdose, as well as the others that have died from being shot during a P2P file heist. I'm sure that with tens of millions of Kazaa users, those lists must be very, very long.

"Power users."

[Lemmy Caution]

I don't care about being a power user or not. I want to be on as diverse a P2P network as possible, to have the best chance of find relatively obscure work. Being able to use a back-propagating learning neural network that reassembles fragmented downloads intelligently and learns bad host IDs is useless to me if I am on a P2P network limited to Rush fans.

Re:Bootstrapping?

[Hott of the World]

Agreed.

That comment was about as coherent as

1.Give bad analogy
2.????
3.Prove Point!

mail your stolen music back to the MPAA

[gelfling]

I call on all thieves to email their ill gotten gains back to the MPAA. I have about 300GB that I should send back to them and if the rest of you criminals did the same we could solve this scourge on society once and fer-all.

Re:Fighting the RIAA using their own tactics

[commodoresloat]

It's a good idea fighting the RIAA using their own tactics. Just like they fight the p2p networks by filling them with crap files, forcing users to distribute shitty music files, we can do the same to them! Record crap music, get a contract with them and force them to distribute crap music! Everybody wins!

Oh, wait..... never mind.