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Kazaa Blocks Australian Users

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the taking-my-ball-and-going-home dept.

afaik_ianal writes "The Sydney Morning herald is reporting that Kazaa is blocking Australian downloads of their client, just a day after the deadline passed for implementing keyword filters. According to the article, Shaman networks were still working on installing the filters yesterday."

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  1. It's kind of funny... by Corsican+Upstart · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's kind of funny.. they're based in Australia, and they can serve everyone but citizens of their own country...

    1. Re:It's kind of funny... by zsau · · Score: 2, Funny

      My guess is the OP is either confused about our federal structure ... we have parliaments in many cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart; two in Canberra and one in Darwin). Of course, these cities are all capitals of the jurisdictions(?) for which the parliaments exist (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania; the Commonwealth and the ACT and the Northern Territory, respectively). I would've thought that happened by definition, mind. (It never clicked before now that there must be *two* Parliaments in Canberra—thank Christ I don't live there!)

      Alternatively, it could be a bad attempt at a joke: everyone knows the capital of Australia is Sydney.

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  2. So. by Data+Link+Layer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like those 14 people are going to have to find another method to all their copyright infringed material from.

    1. Re:So. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      G'day, mateGreetings, friend. I would like to download some files. I am based in Austr... uh... ia. Yes.

  3. LATE BREAKING NEWS by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 4, Funny

    NEWSFLASH: Kazaa is still around.

    people still use that?

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  4. Re:That's okay by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 3, Funny
    Serious, how does such an ignorant troll get modded "insightful"?

    This IS slashdot after all.

  5. Re:That's okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You Australians are pretty uppity for being down under.

  6. Re:Shaman or Sharman by richdun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Meh, damn shaman are overpowered anyhow.

  7. My install log by Freaky+Spook · · Score: 2, Funny

    [2:10]I just tried to install this Kazaa program but this anoyng MS Anti-Spyware doesn't like me installing it.

    [2:15]Ok Iv disabled anti-spyware and I am installing it again.

    [2:20]Just finished insntalling #ddffh@4(*(&^#*&%*&%^&^%76#$*7$%[CARRIER DISCONNECTED]

  8. Find another way to get Kazaa by GeeksHaveFeelings · · Score: 2, Funny

    So they'll use another P2P software to get Kazaa now?

  9. It's also an improvement by rolypolyman · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the announcement, Telstra said it would proceed with shutdown of several OC-48 backbones as spyware traffic falls.

  10. Oblig by Pneuma+ROCKS · · Score: 4, Funny

    As if half a dozen of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

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  11. Re:That's okay by femto · · Score: 2, Funny

    Down under? A popular misconception. Hold on a sec, just gotta feed my kangaroo and get the dropbear of the kid...

  12. Ka-what? by Havenwar · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, I must say, presently Kazaa is the best filesharing protocol in the world! At least for us overweight hairy horny sweaty geeks living in mothers basement. Whatever I search for, I get more pr0n for my ever growing collection! Sure, a few broken files, but it is quantity that matters, not quality!

    Of course... in reality I long since moved out of mothers basement, she died, and so did Kazaa. I'm still overweight, hairy, horny and sweaty, but nowadays I use the ed2k and bittorrent protocols for filetranfers instead. These days I only get the good pr0n.