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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."
If you install Kazaa while running MS Antispyware, do you still get the adware installed?
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Strange, the "Why worry about searches when you have nothing to hide" argument is the same one that Ashcroft et. al use when justifying increases in government invasion into the home. Is it ok to use the argument here but not for government security? I mean, isn't fighting terrorism more important than some silly piece of ad/spy/malware? Perhaps it's slashdot, and these logical chasms are permissable.
Come on. The ^H joke is so old now it's ridiculous. You didn't even add they correct number of them. Had if you had sustituted real backspaces instead of your phoney ^H's then the resulting word would have been spyadware.
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