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Secret Kazaa Documents Revealed in Court
Dan Warne writes "A fascinating range of Kazaa's internal documents were revealed in Federal Court in the ongoing court case against the Australian-based company today. One extraordinary philosophical manifesto by the company's chief technical officer showed that he was aware that Kazaa's activities were a huge legal risk. He also feared being 'out-innovated' by other P2P programs that didn't come bundled with adware. "if consumers can connect to FT (as well as Gnutella 2, eDonkey and Bittorrent) and it has no ads or adware then it would seem a good choice," Philip Morle says in the his manifesto. The documents are full of all sorts of other admissions-that-you'd-be-crazy-to-put-on-paper like how Kazaa employees "hate" installing the Kazaa Media Desktop on their machines because all the bundled adware slows your machine down and can hijack your web browser."
Kazaa contains Spyware! Lock up your daughterboards!!!
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With regard to forcing their spiteful employees using their own products, KaZaa ain't no preacher for the general populace.
People would prefer programs without adware? What a stunning concept. At what point did "manifesto" replace "common sense"?
Kazaa has been a by word sinonimous with adware since I foolishly installed it. The only way I got rid of all the junk was a full format of my hard drive.
I did challenge one of the installed programs becuase it's uninstaller simply reinstalled a copy of the same program under a different name, then removed the original and itself. urgo turning adware into a virus (A virus is any program which replicated itself).
Upon threatening legal action against the adware makers I was delivered a one shot vacination and removal tool, which took the adware off and promptly rendered itself un-executable again.
All this just for things to take over my browser, and high light the word "plug" every five minutes so as I could go buy plugs from a retailer I'd not trust with the duty of holding their own ass, let along my credit card details.
And then programs which were monitoring my keystrokes, to which I promptly wrote a program to emulate key strokes and let it iterate the words "Go forth and multiply you useless toe rags" about 4 million times.
But yes it contains spyware, adware and infact very little software of any use (unless you wish to break the law).
Urgo, kazaa sucks, it's truely THE worst piece of software on the internet, and as such should be exorcised.
Xel
(ALL ADWARE AND SPYWARE WRITERS, ALONG WITH VIRUS AND TROJAN HACKERS SHOULD BE STRUNG UP BY THE KEYBOARD LEAD UNTIL DUKE NUK'EM FOREVER IS RELEASED)
One nice thing about any devious plots. People always have to write them down to either keep their lies straight, or to justify it somehow to themselves.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Haven't secret government documents appeared on Kazaa? ;)
I prefer a void in conversation to a vacuous one.
Didn't they try transfering their ownership to some pseudo-sovereign island that is at maybe twelve feet above high tide? Or am I getting them mixed up with another of those flash-in-the-pan P2P companies?
Can you download these documents on Kazaa?
- chrish
Do not underestimate the power of the September side of the Force.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
You'd rather have hi-quality ones?