P2P vs. The Clones

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 12, 2004 @11:12AM from the hidden-payloads dept.

smash writes "Rebranding software then loading it with spyware and adware (or just selling it for profit) has become a recent trend with oversea individuals trying to make a few bucks. We all remember the KaZaA Gold, don't we? Shareaza, which recently went open source under the GPL, has been subject to a similar type of theft by a company going by the name RockSoft Development. Surprisingly enough, their software labelled as 'Go Music' hasn't been pulled from C|Net's Download.com after more than a week."

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Re:Hahaha.... by RLiegh · 2004-08-12 11:14 · Score: -1, Troll

theives stealing from theives; what sweet, sweet delicious irony!
that's because... by yipyow · 2004-08-12 11:15 · Score: -1, Troll

download.com only has the highest quality crap.
Re:Hahaha.... by Izago909 · 2004-08-12 11:20 · Score: 0, Troll

You sir have won the daily "Tool of the Industry" award by spouting their corporate spin and calling pirates thievs. You shall recieve you prize tomorrow moring when you show up to your desk at the RIAA. The dictionary.... er... prize doubles as a stress reliever. Just bang repeatedly over your head.
Ironic by carcosa30 · 2004-08-12 11:20 · Score: 0, Troll

So the makers of p2p software are annoyed with opportunists stepping on their copyrights?

Sorry, but I have no pity for Sharman Networks.

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Re:Best P2P client? by sqrt(2) · 2004-08-12 11:25 · Score: 0, Troll

eMule plus. Unless you listen to that pop/rap/hiphop shit.

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Re:theft or copyright infringement. by sqrt(2) · 2004-08-12 11:30 · Score: 0, Troll

Say this:

"The GPL is to be respected, Copyright laws are not."

Repeat until learned.

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Re:Best P2P client? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-12 11:31 · Score: -1, Troll

boo-fucking-hoo for you! Listen, I have 105 MB of an awesome 112 MB porn clip of Olivia from Big Breast of the West -- Coast to Coast downloaded off KaZaA and I can't find anyone to download the final part from. So I've got everything put the "finale" (I can't begin to tell you how frustrating that is!) and because it's one of those crappy KaZaA .dat files I have to use AVIPreview to watch it instead of something that could handle a real AVI. So I'm forever stuck using KaZaA in the hope that one of these months I can find someone to download the last few megabytes from!
Foreign ? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-12 11:31 · Score: -1, Troll

uhm $ whois -h whois.opensrs.net rocksoftdevelopment.com Registrant: Domains by Proxy, Inc. 15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160 PMB353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com Domain Name: ROCKSOFTDEVELOPMENT.COM Created on: 15-Mar-04 Expires on: 15-Mar-05 Last Updated on: 31-Mar-04 Administrative Contact: Private, Registration ROCKSOFTDEVELOPMENT.COM@domainsbyproxy.com Domains by Proxy, Inc. 15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160 PMB353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States (480) 624-2599 Fax -- Technical Contact: Private, Registration ROCKSOFTDEVELOPMENT.COM@domainsbyproxy.com Domains by Proxy, Inc. 15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160 PMB353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States (480) 624-2599 Fax -- Domain servers in listed order: NS1.DOWNLOADFILES.ORG NS2.DOWNLOADFILES.ORG This information was obtained from a different whois server, so we cannot verify its authenticity. perhaps you want to clean up at home first before condemming those pesky foreigners ?, self denial is a common sympton amongst <a href="http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso">u nsociable activities</a> or perhaps some nations are just more skilled at pissing the rest of the world off