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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...

  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.

  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. 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.

  8. 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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