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Kazaa Founder Wants Us To Find "Legitimate" Files

Posted by timothy on from the how-very-thoughtful-to-take-notice dept.

Just because I'm an writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Kevin Bermeister and Michael Speck have been developing technology to return search results on file sharing programs that point to pay-for content from the copyright holders. The article reports that there are trials planned for Australian ISPs, with interest from elsewhere on the globe."

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  1. Not interested by owlnation · · Score: 5, Informative

    Those Kazaa folks cheerfully installed adware and spyware on users computers for personal profit. It's worth remembering this when they say anything. They are greedy, selfish, mindless jerks, and most certainly can never be trusted whatsoever.

  2. Re:"legitimate" != "paid for" by eiapoce · · Score: 2, Informative

    Suggest this to your friend:

    http://www.jamendo.com/ Jamendo is a website with free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. You can loose one or more weeks listening to the traks there... all legit and free.

  3. CC/XMP by c_g_hills · · Score: 2, Informative

    It occurred to me that one could use Creative Commons in conjunction with XMP (metadata tagging) to construct a peer-to-peer network for easier sharing of legitimate files combined with attribution.

    More information about XMP and CC:-
    http://wiki.creativecommons.org/XMP

  4. Re:What planet are these people on? by Idiomatick · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wait wait Pro-IP and the Patriot act was pushed by which party?
    Oh yeahhhh, every senator that initially voted against the patriot act or abstained was a democrat. In final call 62 dems and 3 reps voted against it. In renewal 124dems and 13reps voted against it. For Pro-IP 29dems opposed/abstained 23reps opposed/abstained.

    So maybe you should think about who has been trying to control the populace (not saying either side is good but...).

    Also: "Anyway, I was under the impression that this new idea merely offers the suggestion of legal methods, like watching "Lost" at abc.com..... it doesn't block access to a bittorrent of Lost if that's what you actually desire." i suggest you RTFA ....
      "In plain English, that means when people search for illegal pirated files they will find only legal versions, which they may then buy. The legal version is delivered by the ISP, which receives a cut of the revenue, and the charge is added to the customer's monthly internet bill."
     
    Also from the article they practically Godwin themselves. "the technology can be used to block child-porn searches" somebodythinkofthechildren.