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Skype + Kazaa = ?
An anonymous reader writes "Kazaa has now embedded Skype in their v3.0 download." This isn't a surprising pairing, and it adds millions of VoIP users to the network ... the article also notes that this might bring out the spammers as well.
Here is the wikipedia entry, and here is Skype's general FAQ which will probably answer any questions you have.
I'll be able to get calls from random strangers asking for songs? I guess I could sing them a few bars.
General FAQ link
People using Kazaa in most cases would just leave Kazaa running in background and not bother using the messaging function. If they really want to chat to his peers, those DLers probably already know IRC which is in most cases, IRC is faster. Not to mention VoIP will compete for bandwidth from local computer, making both program slower.
Beep....
You: "Hang on, ive got another call"
You: Click "Hello?"
Caller: "Hello, this is the RIAA, stop singing happy birthday to your grandson on the other side of the world."
liqbase
This is a good thing.
.. why is the bomb makin illegal?
Let's please have legitimate uses for P2P so that the greedy fuckers at RIAA and MPAA can't run around trying to ban P2P on the basis that it only has detrimental uses.
Imagine if cooking or hunting wasnt invented, knives would have been banned cause it would only be used for killing people.
Think about it
Ridiculous but true.
This looks like a win-win for both. Kazaa get the respectability it seeks and Skype get the huge customer base of Kazaa.
Especially as recently Dutch Supreme Court ruled Kazaa legal
Well in this case I say more power to them!
Skype is fairly bloated which the OSS will have to deal with at some point but it is really an excellent program, I wish it supported other information about users such as ICQ #'s and MSN user names. This would make it integrate better with older IM's. But on the whole their business model is pretty good.
They don't charge for fractions of a minute which they will eventually need to start doing but mostly I couldn't be happier with their business ethos.
so skype are now bundling their product with a spyware brimming p2p application that costs more in technical support to remove it and the damage it does than the PC is worth ?
Or is it possible to "virtually" listen to your PC/house exploiting this ?.
... and I don't use Kazaa (firewalls) , what's the point really ?...
:)
Btw, I like Skype
Mmm.. better get a tinfoil hat
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
Skype have been working quite hard to distance themselves from their Kazaa roots. Even if the their product has been great, many people have been wondering if they inluded spyware into the Skype installation, just like Kazaa. And now this!
Note: I'm a happy Skype user myself, but I can see that this might lead to their reputation taking a plunge.
...And so we add to 'RTFA' the new acronym 'LTFG' = Learn To Farkin' Google
AT&ROFLMAO
I guess it makes it into more of a friends network. In the end the RIAA is going to have to sue real friends who swap CDs, send music over their IM file-transfer and listen to eachothers streams. Hows it going to look the next time they sue someone who's been sharing songs with his sister on Kazaa?
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Kazaa hardly has a monopoly on P2P software
I thought everyone had switched by now.
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How about the fact that Kazaa includes spyware like mad? How much you want to bet that there'll be speech-recognition software (a la that in OS 9) that picks up on keywords in calls and uses Kazaa's adware to create popups based on it?
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
...how long before the RIAA can come and find you by voice analysis?
~Ilyanep
To get message, take amount of carrier pigeons at each stage mod 2. Then decode binary.
Wait a minute... You mean I can actually combine spyware, viruses AND receiving phone calls from total strangers? Wow!
Join the anonymous, help develop the network: http://www.i2p2.de
Until they stop dissing SIP and play nice in the sandbox with the rest of the world, kids are all they'll get.
hype (the comment halfway down the page sums it up nicely.)
So I get a P2P client with more spyware than a warez site, and now they shove a voip client in it - will they also generate audio ads?
I don't understand why Kazaa is still being used when there are so many other viable P2P clients out there that won't harm your PC.
>Does anybody know of a IP service that allows all of these services?
http://www.vonage.com/
Will VOIP have any bandwidth left to use when there's also Kazaa and spyware traffic on the line?
Why shouldn't we be in favor of copyright infringement? It isn't clearly a crime, but legally. Not morally though. The owners of the guaranteed word the rights author of material often they suffer the "harm" ; and loss" "economic; to result to copy illegal. As the majority of the arguments propose by enthusiasts of copyright, it holds little water - for several reasons: The complaint is most of the time vague , presupposes that one person copying differently would have bought a copy of editor. Is from time to time true, but more often false; and when it is false, the claimed loss does not occur. The complaint is partially fallacious because the "loss" of word; suggest events in very different matter -- events in which something they have is carried away. For example, if the actions of bookstore's of the books were burned, or if in the register obtained torn, which would be really "loss." ; We generally agree is erroneous to make these things with copies. But when your friend avoids the need to buy a copy duun delivers, the bookshop and editor do not lose anything they had. More suitable description would be than the bookshop and l editor obtains less income than they could have. The same consequence can result if your friend decides to play the bridge instead of reading a book. In a system of the open market, any business isn't authorized to cry "foul" ; just that the prospective customer chooses not to treat them. The complaint requests the question because the loss idea of the "loss" ; on hypothesis the this have" is founded; of "should the editor; obtained paid. That is founded on hypothesis that copyright exists and prohibits to copy individual. But is just issue current: what copyright should it cover? If the public decides they can divide copies, then editor not authorized to hope to be paid each copy, and thus there cannot claim is a "loss" ; when it not. In other terms, the "loss" ; come from the system of copyright; this not an inherent part to copy. Copying in oneself evils nobody. Sorry, I am not english specialty.
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1. your contact list is stored per machine, not on the server. When your machine goes (like my laptop got stolen last week), your contact list is gone. They should at least cache known skype users.
2. tone generation dubious. not good for getting through onto conference calls reliably.
3. no caller ID. so you cannot call people with a private-caller block unless you enter the phone number by hand. Which leads back to issue #2
4. the credit expires if you dont use it.
Otherwise, its an excellent service for long distance networking, and the linux client works great.