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."

Comments

kazaa is dead long live p2p.

[leuk_he]

You can always use eMule (win32) / amule (linux/max/e.a.) Shareaza (win32) or limewire (win/max/javathingy) to perform those searches for you.

The music labels got to realize if they push the p2p networks too hard the p2p clients will go underground into anonymous networks

And remember the DMCA

[DrYak]

rot13, l33t, pig-latin, backward spelled....

all these are methods used to *crypt* the filename.
under the DMCA it *IS COMPLETLY ILLEGAL* to the ??AA to try to circumvent them.
If they try to add "3m1n3m", "adona-may", or "brit. sraeps" to the list, they're breaking an encryption scheme and that's illegal for them !!!

Re:Independent Artists

[Anonymous Coward]

Have a look at http://irate.sourceforge.net/. In essence, this answers your concern. It downloads music you don't know about, allows you to rate it, and fetches more music like the one you rated highest. On the long run, you get:
1- Music you like
2- More exposure to unknown (or little known) artists
3- gis of music, legally!