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Kazaa Blocks Australian Users
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."
Just like America has nothing but Britney spears and Gigli. Serious, how does such an ignorant troll get modded "insightful"?
Kazaa has been relegated to the trash-heap of the net with the advent of bittorrent and registration-only bittorrent trackers. They went the same direction of Napster, because they were litigated into nonexistence.
Decentralization is key to survival now if you want to avoid litigation on the infrastructure.
Ultimately, the death of pirating shareware is going to be governed by the pricepoint more than anything else. Sure, free is always cheaper, but if you can get the music at the right price (and I certainly think allofmp3.com has got it!) then that's going to be a major player.
(And yes, I know there are questions about the legality of the service. But so far it's stood up the legal challenges presented, and it's got to be "more" legal than filesharing, right? :) Not that that matters twojots to the RIAA I guess :)
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Kazaa was good in its day, but offers little to no anonymity, and is completely infiltrated by RIAA/MPAA/*. So, if you want to go to jail, go ahead and use Kazaa to download your copyrighted material.
That being said, few people are still using it. Nobody will care. Those that do care, can now move on to a better client/network.
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> It's kind of funny.. they're based in Australia, and they can serve
> everyone but citizens of their own country...
What's new? The government in Canberra has been doing it for ages...
Kazaa has been relegated to the trash-heap of the net because it's laden with spyware, has an ineffective hashing system that has allowed it to become more polluted by OverPeer and its ilk than any other P2P system (in excess of 50% of the files on KaZaA are damaged, in excess of 90% for some very new releases), hasn't been updated in 3 years, and gathers more lawsuits of users than all other P2P systems combined.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
not only are the copyright owners screwed, but you feel justified in screwing them and are supporting their (unfair) competition.
:)
Whereas if you pay iTunes for it, you're supporting THIER mafia-like tactics.
Thank the gods for cdbaby.com
Instead, companies should develope and release the software for free, into the wild, and create a profitable market using the network itself. It's time for a really creative person to figure out how to release a lasting P2P client/network and make a profit from it in a really untraditional way.
Like utilising all the traffic to build models for what people are searching for. Selling the information to marketers. Letting people sell content through P2P networks, whatever. I'm not the one to create the next fix for P2P, but it is out there, and I'll be the first one to use it.
When all current filesharing systems have been hunted down and destroyed the users of those systems will flock to:
a) CD Stores
b) The next, better, faster, more anonymous filesharing system
What do you think?