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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."
Which is created by the same folks that started KaaZaa.
If skype installer doesnt container spyware today, it will have some tomorrow, take my word for it.
I'd stay away from anything created by this company or associated with them.
People still use Kazaa? Just switch to SoulSeek, much better.
There are 2 types of people in the world, those who find that stupid binary joke funny, and those who don't.
I occasionally have to touch some dodgy Windows stuff. I have a VMWare win2k virtual machine that I clone - one copy with my accounting stuff (yes, stuck on Windows), one copy with Cisco cert stuff, and perhaps another if there is something untrustworthy I need to inspect. Since its Windows its *all* untrustworthy
I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo
Just another kick in the teeth, oh well.
Hardware components for sale!!!
since you're using multiple sockets that means threading
If you're writing a SOCKETS app you should know that this is not the case. The select call allows you to handle sockets within a single event loop in a single thread. I'd urge you to develop your software in this model and go MT later if you need to. No-one wants to be debugging MT code, especially code that doesn't have to be MT.
mod this guy down
he's just posting to get his little sale noticed, as he has done in other articles now
Who in their right mind would buy hardware listen in the neowin forums? It's called ebay, go take a look!
Yeah, seems like he had a brain after all.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Michael Sims had a low id as well.
And now he's gone!
Actually if you have noticed, i've been commenting on the NASA story, but its ok, some people have their website links in their sig, I have a sale, big deal, go troll somewhere else buddy.
Hardware components for sale!!!
25 YRS working on mission critical systems myself...
Either I'm good or I'm lucky.
If I'm lucky, I offer my apology on the ambiguous specification of "blind and deaf."
If I'm good, then most everyone must understands my specs.
I hope its both.
Thanks...