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September 02, 2003
Kazaa irony
Kazaa irony: Someone makes an app which is too much like theirs, and Sharman Networks invokes the DMCA to get 'em delisted on Google. The Church of Scientology also used lawyers to change Google results, but they didn't have the hypocrisy of this Kazaa case.
Posted by John Dowdell at September 2, 2003 01:21 PM
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The word of the day is: Direct Connect.
Forget Kazaa, it has joined ranks with Napster in the graveyard of old and unusable software.
Posted by: Jarle at September 2, 2003 01:49 PM
When I recently polled my students (ages 12-14) on what they did on the Web nearly half of them said they used Kazaa to download music, games, and software. One 14 year-old was quite proud of getting the full Studio MX suite.
After giving them a lecture about file sharing equating to theft (during which they looked at me like I had broccoli growing out of my ears) one of my students said "Well, if it's wrong and illegal, how can Kazaa be allowed to operate? Wouldn't someone like the government stop them if it really was wrong?"
Good question for a 14 year-old, and I suspect that's the attitude of most of the casual Kazaa users out there.
Posted by: Kim Cavanaugh at September 2, 2003 06:10 PM
"Wouldn't someone like the government stop them if it really was wrong?"
... they rely on "government" to do the right thing when they themselves won't? They don't yet realize that that centralization of power is an even more tempting target for those who would corrupt others...?
Posted by: jd at September 2, 2003 06:26 PM
Kazaa lite isnt just a remade version of kazaa... it is a hacked version with the banners removed.
Although i dont like the DCMA, in this instance Sharman Networks has a right to use it.
Posted by: Sean Clark at September 2, 2003 06:29 PM
?? Someone is using Kazaa's "IP" (intentional quotes) without their consent, and you see a difference...!?
C'mon... they're using the goldarned Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which (although I wouldn't have written it) was specifically written to stop theft such as Kazaa's, which is why they went to such troubles to locate offshore.
I'm shocked....
Posted by: jd at September 2, 2003 08:20 PM
I can't imagine why Kazaa users would use Google to find Kazaa lite....wouldn't they just locate it on Kazaa? If Kazaa has gone to these lengths to stop people finding Kazaa lite on Google, maybe they would also try to ban users from looking for it on their own service. And if they could remove certain software that infringed their copyright from file swappers, wouldn't that open the floodgates to allow them to remove *any* copyright infringing software?
Posted by: Alex at September 4, 2003 02:50 AM
Alex, people don't want to use Kazaa because of the spyware it contains. Thus, they're looking for Kazaa lite to download.
Posted by: Todd at September 4, 2003 05:15 AM