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Kazaa/Altnet To Pay Users For Trading Content
mesozoic writes "News.com is reporting that Kazaa and Altnet are unrolling a setup where users are paid to distribute 'authorized content.' The article also mentions something about getting rid of unauthorized files, but is unclear on when and how. I'll be paying close attention to whether this P2P business model pans out; Sharman _has_ shown some shrewd business sense in the past."
Why do I picture a bad made-for-TV movie (yes, I know that's redundant) where the guys are looking at each other, nodding, and saying, "you know, it's so crazy it just might work..."
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This sounds even better than when Bill Gates e-mailed me saying he will pay me $5.00 for every person I forward the message to!
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(Insert obligatory SP reference of list of steps with the 2nd last step being "???" and last step being "Profit")
Sharman _has_ shown some shrewd business sense in the past.
Yeah, just don't squeeze him.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
'They can then host files that are authorized for distribution through this network and will receive "Peer Points" that can be redeemed for prizes every time someone uploads a file.'
One of those banned Shadowbane players already has 768,323,000,000 Peer Points, and plans to redeem them for a Harrier jet.
Because the companies didn't communicate their plans with Kazaa users, the news sparked fears of "spyware"
Spyware fears with Kazaa? Unthinkable!
I hereby authorize you to distribute l337 ju4r3z. Send cheques to...
Trolling is a art,
Are just like money, but more fun!
[walks into amusement park, signs everywhere that say "Peer Points not accepted here"]
Doh!
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Come on lobster harmonica!
and we all know just how important to a company it is to impress the slashdot community.
Hell, That whole DCMA thing just went away when we got on the case, huh!
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Girlfriend: "What are these pictures I found on your computer?!?"
You: "I swear they're not mine! I was just trying to support Kazaa's new P2P business model! Honest!"
Wow, your figures are so convincing, except you completely left out that pesky dimension called "time". Pop in another quarter and try again.
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Cool. His girlfriend knows how to break encryption. My girlfriend can barely unzip files.
Maybe they will have some sort of amnesty whereby you can upload all of your unauthorized files to the **AA, no questions asked.
There's rumored to be an free service in the works that makes this even easier: you just share out your hard drives to the **AA and they'll take care of the housecleaning for you.You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
on the site they state that "Kazaa Media Desktop is not bundled with spyware, and we respect your privacy. See our Privacy Statement for information on our data practices."
i remember something about this not being true. do they lie?
I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
Especially great when the FBI comes breaking through door and you have to explain to Mulder and Scully about how you really didn't know about the 5 gigs of Japanese pre-teen toilet porn on your hard-drive ...
I've always found Kazaa slightly disturbing, so I invented the following conspiracy theories about it, using the tried and tested research method of wild conjecture: - 1) Most of the files on Kazaa aren't really transfered peer to peer - there's a huge central repository somewhere of horrible 128kbps quality mp3s full of noise. The noise makes these files sufficiently different from the original songs that Sharman doesn't have to license them. This is why any poor quality songs start downloading instantly, whereas you have to wait approximately forever to find any good quality material. 2) Sharman also regularly publishes versions of it's other popular software package 'Kazaa Lite'. This contains just as much Spyware as standard Kazaa, but it's special 'stealth' Spyware custom written by Sharman. It also crashes randomly. 3) Sharman also publishes 'Diet Kazaa'. This contains twice as much Spyware as either 'Kazaa' or 'Kazaa Lite', and crashes twice as often. However, as a reward, you get a special button that looks like Britney Spears. 4) Any version of Kazaa uses your idle bandwidth and processor power to research dangerous biological toxins and military hardware for the US Department of Defense. Coming soon - the Sharman Tank. 5) Sharman logs all copyrighted files shared over their network, and the users sharing them, so that if they are ever short on money, they can sell the list to the **AA. 6) Sharman is run by a group of aliens, from their spaceship. This is how the company is able to move so swiftly between countries each time legal action threatens.
Hey man, thanks for the link to that cool site. I don't know why you refer to gator as a "nasty" though...that site had nothing but really neat utilites. I now have a program to keep my clock accurate, a date manager, and a neat program that keeps me from having to type passwords and fill out foorms.
In soviet russia the spamers pay you ????????
Yeah, so people get paid to host files that are legit and authorized...this is excellent! I have no fewer than 4 dusty old machines that want to be paid to distribute! With that said, my regularly used machine can continue sharing the 'fun' stuff.
Is the verification for the user sharing IP based? If so, I know for a fact that Verizon doles out IPs to anyone on a local network that wants one.
Crime DOES pay!
uh, no, that would be more aptly categorized as a blessing.
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