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Shutting down Kazaa

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tough-to-do dept.

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."

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  1. That means... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. Where? by skroz · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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    1. Re:Where? by nickclarke · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re:Bootstrapping? by DarkZero · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. "Power users." by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. mail your stolen music back to the MPAA by gelfling · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.