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Fyyr Lu'Storm
10-13-2003, 09:45 PM
CDFreaks Kazaa Report (http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/8178)
Paldor
10-13-2003, 10:18 PM
Kazaa has obviously not looked at Napster right now.

Napster ATM is like.... Erudin's Crossing.. Its there, and noone in the zone.
Cloudien
10-14-2003, 03:09 AM
LOL good description :)

BitTorrent's the Next Big Thing now. Kazaa's full of fakes and viruses anyway.

Of course, if they're successful and manage to keep a decent list songs on this thing at the approval of the RIAA (as opposed to the 1 or 2 that explicitly allow them to add their songs a'la Napster), whilst also keeping the songs non-crippled, then it'd be a different story. Paying for the knowledge that you're downloading something of decent quality and that it's not just some virus or broken version sounds worth it to me.

But somehow I don't see that happenening... the RIAA wouldn't allow it, it's too profitable :rolleyes:
Drake09
10-14-2003, 07:55 AM
IRC is all a man needs.
Diggins
10-14-2003, 08:36 PM
Fees??? The RIAA should be celebrating that Kazaa is committing suicide then.

Cost Free alternatives:

- BitTorrent: Really hot right now. Go pick up that HL2 source code today!

- Gnucleus: A great, easy to use freeware program for file trading on the Gnutella network. No spyware or popup ads!

- Usenet: The MP3 groups on decent Usenet servers are really coming back to life since the RIAA lawsuits targeting peer to peer networks users.

- IRC: Tons of music download groups on EFNET and others.

I wish them luck hehe.
Drake09
10-14-2003, 09:36 PM
BitTorrent: Really hot right now. Go pick up that HL2 source code today!

Disgusting. Call me a hypocrit, I download music etc, but stealing someones game engine source that has been worked on for years... and then compiling it with an old beta to make something work just bad.
Cloudien
10-15-2003, 12:53 PM
mmm I'd have to agree there.

On the other side of the story, using Microsoft Outlook on a critical machine (how it got leaked) = bad idea
Rahjeir
10-16-2003, 07:18 AM
On the other side of the story, using Microsoft Outlook on a critical machine (how it got leaked) = bad idea

It's a bad idea to put any type of source code, on a open network computer. Anything is hackable. And I mean anything, you can't stop a hackor.
Cloudien
10-17-2003, 03:54 PM
agreed. Outlook just happens to make it easy (to MS credit they've got it fairly sorted - unfortunately users are still too apathetic to download patches etc)
Rahjeir
10-18-2003, 03:44 AM
It's M$. :)