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Kazaa Forced To Modify Search Engine
An anonymous reader writes "Eminem, Madonna and Kylie Minogue are just some of the popular artists whose songs are to be blocked from being illegally distributed on the peer-to-peer network Kazaa following Federal Court orders in Australia yesterday. Sharman Networks, the owner of Kazaa, was ordered by the courts to modify the file-sharing software to block a list of search terms -- primarily artist and song names. The search terms are also to be supplied by record companies. The directive follows the record companies' court victory in September against individuals and organizations associated with Kazaa."
That Erminem and Mardonna are the new hot searches on the Kaaza network
Is this the same legal battle thats been going on for the last few years? Or is this a completely new one?
or Pig Latin, etc... when will they learn?
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So what are the standard rewritting rules to evade dumb pattern matching ? Writing backward ? L33tsp33k ? doubling characters ? Cockney Rhyming Slang ?
The W3C should set up a list of standardized procedure.
a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y, z
The riaa is certain their minimal search restriction (only 26 terms!!!) will improove their popularity, since they're usually known for draconian measures!
...is a title that Madonna has used for both an album and a song, which seems to make using Kazaa for anything "interesting" kind of pointless.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
There are so many fakes because the RIAA has been happily hiring companies to pollute the search results for certain terms.
Actually, I doubt the fakes can be much worse than the originals. Call me a troll, but blocking access to Eminem, Madonna and Kylie Minogue's songs is a step towards improving the quality of music.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
[Constestant] I can block that tune in ONE search phrase.
[Host] Ok, Block That Tune!!
[Contestant] Asterisk.
This space intentionally left (almost) blank.
and i only had 1 step left with my AA program...
Wave upon wave of demented avengers March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
theft rampant?
TV sets, cell phones, cars, that sort of thing? really?
must be hard to digitize. bandwidth's pretty expensive for transporting physical objects.some sort of macro version of quantum teleportation.
OH, you mean ideas, like music? i didn't know one could steal music from people. wow.
the only solution to this problem will come from further advances in fMRI mind monitoring technology over the next couple of decades. we will finally stop the theft of immaterial objects from people's minds when we can stick their heads in a scanner and search for stolen intellectual property. then, and only then, will the world be safe from this unprecedented criminal activity.