Kazaa
<div class="IPBDescription">Steals text from other programs..</div>Well, I am one of the many people who uses kazaa, the file sharing P2P application. I love it, except for one thing, it swipes the font of whatever i last wrote into its mp3 player, I wake up every day, write e-mails, chat on IM's and then it is suddenly reappears on kazaa. It is a fun thing to watch, but sometimes it is so big that i cant read what mp3 i am playing.. entertaining... yet.. annoying..
Pardon my n00b smell, i just emerged from my egg.
Pardon my n00b smell, i just emerged from my egg.
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Oh, and your sig is too big, 400x75 is tops, with 22kb teh upper limit
Anyway, I don't use Kazaa, I use WinMX and it works fine. Well actually, no I don't, I just came home one day and it was on my computer. Mysterious...
That's a novel idea indeed! Now can you tell me how I can purchase single songs from albums that aren't even on sale in my area?
Your sig is too friggin big Flea .. O_o
There is no stealing involved. Stealing means taking something so that the original owner doesn't have it anymore. However, nothing is being taken away by copying files.
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Do you really? That reaction didn't surprise me at all.
At any rate, I'll begin by saying that I use kazaa occasionally-- for the most part to download covers, b sides, and new bands that I've heard of through word of mouth. When I find a user with a good connection who has a song that I like, I scan their drive, and dl anything that sounds interesting. I've found a decent number of great bands this way, and it's led to several hundred cd purchases. Why? Because I like music, and I’m one of the millions of people who can tell the difference between cd quality audio and a shabby little mp3.
These days, however, I don't buy cds anymore (though, to date, I've purchased close to 1,000), and it can be blamed entirely on my irritation with the RIAA. Though the entire country is approaching a recession, they choose to blame the entirety of their losses on piracy (though the industries associated with the devices necessary for piracy have sustained even steeper losses) and don't even consider that there may be people who are simply boycotting them. Hey, you guys want to save some cash? Then fire that fat, useless cow Hillary Rosen, who makes 1.2 mill per year, and then has the gall to chastise the average joe blue-collar consumer for questioning the $18 price tag that gets slapped on most new cds. Morons.
Hey, I tried the legit route—I even subscribed to emusic! But the RIAA is waaaaay too concerned with trying to sustain their current business model—most notably, their tight control of distribution—especially of songs other than an album’s radio hits, so you’ll be forced to unwittingly drop the full price for a one hit wonder.
Even scarier are their efforts to curb your rights (and integrate policeware into YOUR computers) to protect their profit margins. Check out what they and they and Senate lackey Fritz Hollings have in store for you and your PC:
<a href="http://www.boycott-riaa.com" target="_blank">dig it.</a>
Who decided that we should put paniky morons with ties to major corporations in charge? <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
Oh, and applying copyright laws to digital data is and always has been ridiculous. Bytes be free!
Policeware is the most ridiculous thing i´ve heard of, and i think it´s going to get implemented in countries like usa.... But it won´t last long, that´s for sure.....
i agree with all the way there :\
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Yes, only the bad USA does things like restrict your PC activities.
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26939.html" target="_blank">Oh wait...</a>
The UK is also looking into implementing a watchdog system that monitors <b>all</b> of it's residents' internet activity. I don't know about you, but I honestly don't relish the idea of some slimy government geek reading my peronal and private e-mails....
Battousai was talking about countries "like the USA", which would mean that he talked about the whole of the western world. The US are easily the most profilic example, especially since everyone has at least some idea of their policy.
Also, the greek ban wasn't exactely aimed to control the PC activities of its people, it was supposed to limit gambilng, which <i>is</i> a serious problem in that country.
A ridiculous, highly dangerous and completely ineffective law, yes, but none that tried to censor anything - although it inadvertedly did just that.
A court descision has put it out of function for now.
On the topic of online 'piracy', I completely agree with Bathroom Monkey. I for mine can't respect the RIAAs claims of copyright violations, simply because the companies it represents <i>didn't</i> produce anything we could copy <i>in the first place</i> - they bought those rights from the creatives, to terms the labels could largely define by themselves as they had effectively destroyed or pulled aside any kind of alternative.
This does of course not justify stealing from the labels, since that would still deprive the artists from their income, but as it is, I can't see filesharing as stealing or piracy, but as advertising, much like radio or listening booths in CD stores:
Since the beginning of the P2P era, the RIAAs companies income has never stopped rising - and that although their marketing policies of never ending amounts of one-hit-wonders were widely regarded as ruinous.
Mrs. Rosen should face the truth and realize that P2P didn't harm her employers, but indeed kept them alive, if you allow me the exaggeration.
For policeware and every other kind of spyware: Governments and similarily powerful institutions have always tried to control their peoples media consume and activities - be it to for the "Schutz von Volk und Staat" (defense of people and state), the defense against communist influences, the defense against capitalist influence, the defense of our children, the defense against piracy, or the defense against terrorism.
None of these means ever served the aims they were proclaimed to serve, they only did one thing: Lay power in the wrong hands.
It's making me a little itchy to see people with an 'it will go by' kind of attitude; it would surely go by, sooner or later, but to tell you the truth, I'd rather see it never actually start.
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MonsE came up with <a href="http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/hosb601.pdf" target="_blank">these</a> statistics. No further comments necessary, don'tchathink?
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I'd call that would be a myth. It might be that you misinturpreted and that is talking about the homicide rate per every 1k of ppl or something like that, but not the total
i win
no spyware, no hidden shiznit... it's a haxored version of kazaa. get it, love it, sleep with it.
I'm not the only one. By having a way to distribute their music without cost- bands can get a fanbase that WILL pay for it. How many NS play testers would be willing to pay for V1 if it was retail? Exactly.
What do you mean exactly?
Less than the amount who would pay if they didn't get to "try before you buy". With NS especially where thy hype is greater than the game. <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
Flea from rphl boards? hello. lol.
I use kazaalite, too... it's great, no spyware or anything, just no-bs file sharing.
<a href="http://www.kazaalite.com" target="_blank">Kazaa Lite</a>
Snag it!
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