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KaZaA Wants to Be An Official Content Distributor

Posted by timothy on from the open-up dept.

scubacuda writes "Detroit News: Nikki Hemming, CEO of KaZaA, says KaZaA wants to be the official online distributor for the entertainment industry. 'Realize that this technology is inexorable, and come to the table,' says Hemming to our friends Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti."

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  1. Do your part to improve /.'s English today! by markov_chain · · Score: 3, Informative


    inexorable

    \In*ex"o*ra*ble\, a. [L. inexorabilis: cf. F. inexorable. See In- not, and Exorable, Adore.] Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. ``Inexorable equality of laws.'' --Gibbon. ``Death's inexorable doom.'' --Dryden.

    (courtesy dictionary.com)

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  2. Re:Another reason by I+start+fires · · Score: 2, Informative

    you know things are going to hell when they start charging for illegal downloads

    Why not? They already charge a levy on CD-Rs for illegal copying of copyrighted music.

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  3. Re:Hilary Rosen by telstar · · Score: 2, Informative

    She's still with them through the end of the year.

  4. Oh Look! by kfishy · · Score: 2, Informative

    What a surprise! It's been posted somewhere else!

  5. Re:Nice try, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    The RIAA doesn't want control over their content, they want the money that piracy denies them - which is what this deal would give them.

    What revenue? No one has ever shown that P2P is hurting record companies. In fact, some indications are that P2P is helping record companies.

    And don't think for a minute that the record company execs don't know that. Look at the history of DRM: the first attempt was blatantly called Content Scrambling System.

    This is a long-term effort to get control of all digital content as much as possible. Then jack up the price.

    Were I a record company exec, I'd be more worried if my content weren't being pirated.

  6. Re:Eww by deadsaijinx* · · Score: 3, Informative

    kazaalite has the word kazaa in it. Sans spywayre and ads. it's good for the occasional song download.

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  7. Re:Eww by Adam9 · · Score: 2, Informative

    With Shareaza, you can connect to Gnutella, "Gnutella 2", and EDOnkey with the same client. It also supports BitTorrent. I like the interface a lot too. No spyware.

  8. Kazaa does not apply hashing by flowerp · · Score: 3, Informative


    And hence the downloads degrade nearly every generation. IMHO Kazaa is the most comprehensible source for incomplete and corrupted files.

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  9. Translation for those interested by Mikey-San · · Score: 4, Informative

    KaZaA to media organizations:

    "Either get in business with us or we'll continue making it dirt-easy to steal your content."

    See also:

    http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/E0298700.html

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  10. Re:for a fee. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    So in other words, you would rather watch a digital badly translated fansub without any of the dvd extras than wait a few extra months to get the series? if you think that it really takes 4 years to get a series over hear from japan, then you need to catch up with the times. Most anime that is licensed now has only recently finished a first run on japanese tv, and on top of that, i can think of nearly half dozen shows that have not even finished a season that were announced at anime expo and fanime 2003. However, if you are talking about stuff like Rockman.exe(megaman nt warrior) that is being run on the wb or fox, then pull your head out and watch more Cartoon Network, and no, i am not talking about the heavily edited crap on toonami, i mean what has been running on adult swim, which is largely unedited. Or watch Anime Unleashed on TechTV, who won't run a series if they have to edit it at all. As far as a series being dumbed down, you need to stop watching dubs, because with the availablity of subs, there is no such thing as watching a series which has "completely lost the spirit of the show." So like i said, pull your head out and reevaluate your status as an "avid anime watcher". Fucktard.

  11. Re:Distributing Television by Cbs228 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Throw a TiVo into the mix, and all the little pigs mix, and you don't know who is doing what and when! And the farm makes much less money.

    This is not so. The TiVo collects information on who watches what when (reference: See this /. article). In fact, they (along with the companies who have agreed to buy the information) know a lot more about your viewing habits than if you just used "standard" analog cable without a PVR. To summarize: Your TiVo is infected with spyware. Do you really want everything you watch sitting in some database somewhere?

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  12. Re:ISP contracts by Ramze · · Score: 4, Informative
    Their latest Kazaa 2.5 gives you "points" for hosting files which you can then use to "buy" certain songs or video clips or use to enter into contests (so many points = one entry to the sweepstakes, I guess). You get the short end of the stick either way as it takes thousands of points to buy a song & you can only buy from a crappy selection at the moment. Also, I'm sure the odds of winning contests aren't that great. Oh, also you only get points if someone actually downloads one of their paid hosted files from your machine -- not just the fact that you're hosting it.

    I think I'll stick to Kazaa Lite & switch to WinMX or eDonkey2000 if they keep up this kinda crap. I d/l the latest version of Kazaa and it has more ads and adware than ever! Ugh!