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Secret Kazaa Documents Revealed in Court

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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."

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  1. Shock News Just In... by tabkey12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kazaa contains Spyware! Lock up your daughterboards!!!

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  2. Practice what you preach by Dark+Coder · · Score: 3, Funny

    With regard to forcing their spiteful employees using their own products, KaZaa ain't no preacher for the general populace.

  3. No, really by Ignignokt · · Score: 5, Funny

    People would prefer programs without adware? What a stunning concept. At what point did "manifesto" replace "common sense"?

  4. Hoisted... by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hoisted by their own petards.

    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.

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  5. I think this is irony... by signingis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Haven't secret government documents appeared on Kazaa? ;)

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  6. Re:suprising, or is it? by chrish · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you download these documents on Kazaa?

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  7. Re:Kazaa _must not_ fail by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny
    It'll be like AOL day all over again.

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