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Kazaa/Altnet To Pay Users For Trading Content

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-as-good-as-it-sounds dept.

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."

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  1. Re:If this is not the first post... by Ubiquitous+Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ow! Hope you know a good prcctologist! - UC

  2. Re:sounds like a dumb idea... by caluml · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    No, ZZ = , Shift, z, z, (release shift), enter. 5 keystrokes.
    :wq = <esc>, Shift, ;, (release shift), w, q, enter. 6 keystrokes. And that's not counting the ! you'd need if you were editting a file and needed to override the permissions on it.

    Having made that point, I'd like to point out that I am a :wq man myself. Nothing funnier than a newb who forgets to press i, or a, and ends up doing some magic search and replace on their text with some magic vi key sequence.

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  3. ok its offtopic... by KingRamsis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...but i'm having nightmares about the goatse guy everytime I read /. cant we just implement a filter for goatse somehow ? heck this page is probably getting more hits than cnn.com and the trolls are getting better even setting up mirrors