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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."
I hope its not the http://www.piratebay.org/, since the people behind it roams the DC++ world and download illigal copies of movies and music and the reports the users to their respective ISP so that they will be cut off. I wonder what these people log and do throught their torrent tracker.
Generally speaking, if you have access to it and you didnt have to know some really powerful people to get access, and do shittons of favors for them, Its not private.
Learn how to setup LVM, glftpd, eggdrops with sitebot scripts, and remove all logs from a system, AND talk to the right person at the right time. Then you might be on something private.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
"property is theft"
--joseph Proudhon
For using closed source + adware infested applications..
Cant trust them.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I was implying P2P isn't private. Everything I mentioned is used on a lot of private ftp sites.
Whoever moderated me up is probably more in the know than you are.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx