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Kazaa Launches Legitimacy Campaign

Posted by simoniker on from the v-well-behaved dept.

Beolach writes "The Washington Post has an article on Kazaa launching a $1 million advertising campaign promoting itself as a legitimate media distribution tool. From the article: 'The campaign is the latest push by the Kazaa file-sharing service and its parent company, Sharman Networks, to counter a multi-million-dollar legal and lobbying effort launched by music, software and movie firms convinced that peer-to-peer (P2P) services are a major source of online piracy'."

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  1. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How will Kazaa Lite promote itself then? ;)

  2. I hate to suggest it, but ... by BallPeenHammer · · Score: 0, Funny
    Maybe they should consider following Microsoft's brilliant example and offer rewards for those bad people who subvert a perfectly innocent system.

    Ouch! That hurts!

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  3. Re:Like Tobacco by Davak · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh, my English teacher would be pissed.

    Please change "it's" to "its" in the above post. My early morning typing skills are failing me.

    (This post is to avoid the nazi typo trolls.)

  4. in other news... by dcordeiro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Warez sites claim that they only distribute games and apps to those that unluckly broke their original CDs in half.

    North Korea is creating nuclar bombs just to lower unemployment - officials say.

    add your own lie here!!!

  5. Where is the ad? by CrystalFalcon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can I download it off Kazaa? What is the file name?

  6. Re:It's legit. The users are iffy by Urkki · · Score: 5, Funny

    Owning a legal gun is not against the law.
    Shooting copyright lawyers is.

    Disclaimer: Anybody is free to interpret this post as any combination of anti/pro-guns, anti/pro-file, anti/pro-piracy and anti/pro-shooting ;-)

  7. RIAA-za is better.. by Dynamoo · · Score: 1, Funny
    RIAA-za is a much better file sharing application than Kazaa because, according to the developers.. RIAA-za picks up where Morpheus and Kazaa stop. This powerful application allows you to trade music, video, documents, spreadsheets, banking details and your private pornography collection with everyone else with RIAA-za installed.

    ;)

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  8. But.. by Channard · · Score: 2, Funny
    .. in the words of Eddie Izzard..

    They say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.

  9. And in related news... by drix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jack Valenti, cleaning up his house last weekend, found $1 million tucked beneath the cushion of one of his diamond-embroidered chaise lounges. He was nonplussed.

    I'm not how well a million bucks of advocacy is going to fare against the abysally-deep pockets of the American entertainment industry...

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