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Court Docs Reveal Kazaa Logging User Downloads
Dan Warne writes "The most explosive documents in the ongoing Kazaa court case have emerged today, including logs of discussions between parent company Sharman and the Estonian developer of the Kazaa Media Desktop. They include extraordinary admissions like: "Reporting will make Kazaa look like spyware, as soon as it becomes evident we record downloads and playbacks, users will flee to competitive networks" and then "One can argue that we have knowledge of copyrighted material being downloaded in our network and have to install filters. If we are reporting [gold] files, then technically we could do the same for every file." Finally, "RIAA [could] collect the IP addresses for everyone who has searched for or downloaded that file." Despite the Kazaa developer's concerns over these issues, Kazaa went ahead with the logging." (More below.)
Warne continues "APC Magazine journalist Garth Montgomery, who has covered every day of the trial in the Australian Federal Court, says: "In a nutshell, this has got to rate as the most explosive document revealed. It makes it damn near impossible to maintain the separation theory that Sharman and Altnet rely on in terms of business independence and technical infrastructure. The control they exercise over the system is complete." Montgomery has also scanned in all the documents and made them available in PDF format, including the confidential Kazaa purchase contract and technical specifications for the Kazaa Media Desktop."
Next thing you know they'll be telling us that Microsoft Media Player logs versions of other companies' software that is installed on your computer. Oh wait a minute, they already do that too...
Is it timothydot or something? Why has the last 10+ front page stories been from Timothy? Fallout from losing Michael? What's the story here?
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So that's what 100 Million people shitting their pants at the same time sounds like.
Yeah, tell that to all the people doing hard time for smoking pot.
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Well I read all the -1 posts anyway.
It's probably true what you say. But heres another Konspiracy for you:
KDE and GNOME are actually written by government plants in the OSS community to make sure no one uses Linux.
And what's more it seems to be working.
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I don't see why that's too bad. People using Direct Connect are logged as well via Search Spy. One particular client StrongDC++ ( http://snail.pc.cz/StrongDC/ ) even tells you who's searching for what by nick and IP. IMO that's much worse than just logging what people search for.