Kazaa Launches Legitimacy Campaign

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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That is because it is a fact!

[The-Pheon]

music, software and movie firms convinced that peer-to-peer (P2P) services are a major source of online piracy

They are convinced because.....it is a major source of piracy! :)
Promoting kazaa for legitimate purposes is the right idea, it is a tool. for example ftp can be used for internet piracy as well, it is just another tool.

Kaaza and the War on Copyright Violations

[YouTalkinToMe]

I found this quote particularly interesting:

"Whenever I talk to people about Kazaa, they treat it like marijuana -- as much as they love it, they have a sense that what they're doing is a little bit wrong."

I also think the pending War on Copyright Violations is a bit like the War on Marijuana: Driven by entrenched intrests; lubricated by political donations; with lots of innocent casualties; and ultimately futile because at the end of the day it criminalizes something which is not immoral.

So here's some legitimate ?s

[The Ape With No Name]

Who is bankrolling the campaign? How does a company, dare I say, with no visible means of support come up with the scratch? Venture capital? Dunning the sorority girls in Massey Hall? Dollar a piece so you can have your Christina Arugula, girls? I just don't see how they do it?

Illegitimate ?:

BTW, is it just me or is Kazaa's boss a stone-cold hottie?