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Kazaa-lite Shut Down
atari2600 writes "Finally it has happened. Zeropaid is reporting that the Kazaalite K++ project has been shutdown by Sharman Networks. The project, which had been set up to block spy and ad ware within the Kazaa Media Desktop Program has achieved notoriety within the P2p world through its simplistic approach and success in reverse engineering the Kazaa application."
Yes.
How many fans would they have if the only airplay they got was by begging a college radio station to play their demo tape?
Lots.
"Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman
I'm sure I'm stating the obvious here, but aren't you a complete dumass for stating p2p is mostly made up of illegal traffic without even having the slightest amount of proof? Do you have a big bad ol' map of everything that's shared, at every point of every day? I know what I use p2p apps for, and that's mainly getting legally shareable books, legally shareable music (from bands that actually want their stuff shared and haven't sold their souls to the riaa). I get material that you can't find in mainstream media because it's all be censored. I can get any linux distro off of bittorrent, do you have any idea how fucking useful THAT is? I can get mandrake, suse, redhat, debian, BSD, you name it. And all that is completly legal. I can even go on there and find a copy of Windows 98 when I'v completly lost or destroyed my cd. Do you have any idea how many windows xp users don't have windows cd's because they were shafted when they baught their brand name prebuild? They paid for windows, they should have a copy, and P2P provides that copy.
P2P is a distrobution tool, it's incensored and unregulated, and this makes it powerful. Someone took the internet and refined it into something far more powerful than your puny mind can comprehend. It's a very powerful distrobution tool. I can find almost any kind of information I want between the local library, google, and a p2p app. I'm studying for a cert right now, and I can't tell you how useful a p2p app is in finding relevant information to help that.
As for the "illegality" of p2p, I don't recognize that. If the RIAA recaps it's investment in an artist, and the artist gets compensated enough they aren't starving, then I consider their stuff shareable. Why don't I share it? Because I think it all sucks with the acception of a few bands. All the emotion get's censored out of the music for horrible lyrics and hypnotic music or they add in a couple filler songs of drumbeats. Gimme my funker vogt, porn on beta, banjo death kult, de/vision, 16volt, good tekno. I could care less about buting briteny spears, n'synch or even snoop dog's albums.
I'd rather talk about the illegality of the RIAA and MPAA before I talk about the illegality of P2P. Break up the RIAA and MPAA under monopolistic trade laws and use hefty fines so that the companies that make the riaa up are near bankruptsy so that the major music stores have to go for indie and independant bands, revoke the incorperation lisences of the disney, bertlsman, time warner, viacom, news corp and vivendi and watch magically as things correct themselves.
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art is a passion, not a career, you cum sucking fag. if you had a career, or any artistic talent, you wouldnt hide behind that AC posting bullshit.