KaZaA Suspends Downloads

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[copyfight]

Wednesday January 16, 7:26 pm Eastern Time

KaZaA Suspends Downloads AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2002--KaZaA BV is voluntarily and temporarily suspending downloads of the KaZaA Media Desktop software from its Web site pending the decision of the Dutch court on January 31, 2002. For more information visit www.kazaa.com. About KaZaA KaZaA (www.kazaa.com) offers a portfolio of software and products enabling the digital media revolution of instant access to files anytime, anywhere, all based on its leading peer-to-peer media platform from FastTrack.

[pepperhead]

It's more like $16 on avg. but many are $18. 10 dollars would be nice, but I would settle for the older price that I seem to remember of $13. Years ago the record companies would claim that they cost so much because they didn't have enough manufacturing plants.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

No problems here, I'm D/L'ing a few things. Of course it is all Flash and Powerpoint 9-11 presentations. Some great stuff that people have made.

[watcher1]

If you kill the spyware on KaZaa or LineWire they won't work.
I just downloaded Morpheus.

[watcher1]

It is okay to steal it because it is overpriced?

File sharing is not stealing.
All this software does, is expand your circle of friends

[KneelBeforeZod]

hmmm... I've downloaded over 200 old radio shows on audiogalaxy...time to upgrade your 'puter or your ISP!!

[Mixer]

KaZaA BV is voluntarily and temporarily suspending downloads of the KaZaA Media Desktop software from its Web site

They are only stopping people from downloading the Kazza software itself. This has nothing to do with people who already have the software. Kazaa and Morpheus are Peer to Peer programs. For those that dont know this means that I share with you and you share with me and everyone share DIRECTLY with eachother. this isnt a central server. Kazaa may be preventing new peopel from getting into the sharing game but they aren't hurting the ones that are already in it.

[Mixer]

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[steve-b]

All this software does, is expand your circle of friends

Puh-leeze. I want the various abuses of copyright law repealed (and, frankly, the willingness of the GOP to allow Hollywierd to get these favors confirms its status as The Stupid Party). However, the notion that "your circle of friends" includes anyone who can find the files you post on the Internet is ludicrous on its face.

[zandtar]

Case in point, the Soviet Union. Perhaps you'd be more at home in say, Bulgaria, than the United States.

Actually your arguments seem to indicated you'd be more comfortable living in the former Soviet Union versus the United States. Forget about capitalism, and the laws associated with it. Software should be property 'of the people' with no costs associated with it. Isn't that correct, Comrade?

[zandtar]

File sharing is not stealing. All this software does, is expand your circle of friends

Bwahahahahahahahaha! God that was a good one! You should have put up some sort of warning, so I didn't wind up spitting my coffee all over my keyboard. I haven't seen anything that funny in awhile.

[AppyPappy]

Sony and the rest have contacted almost every college campus and told them to shut down the sharing or risk a lawsuit. You can get booted off the campus internet for running file-sharing.

[AppyPappy]

Don't laugh. You may be paying a yearly fee for your PC software in the next few years. Unless you run Linux.

[hobbes1]

When you let liberals create laws that no one pays attention to, such as 20 year-olds drinking or a 55mph maximimum speed limit, we begin to think that we can pick and choose which laws we abide by. This is not a healthy situation.

Kind of the point of the Fall of the Roman Empire....

Those that forget History....

[zandtar]

Puh-leeze. I want the various abuses of copyright law repealed (and, frankly, the willingness of the GOP to allow Hollywierd to get these favors confirms its status as The Stupid Party). However, the notion that "your circle of friends" includes anyone who can find the files you post on the Internet is ludicrous on its face.

One interesting hypocracy you'll notice about the Hollyweird and MTV crowd. Remember all those artists protesting Metallica's fight with Napster? How many of those artists give their music away for free on the Internet? How many of those artists had themselves included on Napsters "do not share" list? They seem to think it should be free, as long as it doesn't come out of their pocketbook.

Of course, with these folks who seem to think "sharing" is okay, I wonder what their stance would be if I "shared" a trojan program that they downloaded, which allowed me remote access with full admin/root on their machine? I strongly suspect they'd be wanting the laws enforced then. Stealing is "sharing" when it benefits them. When they're the victim (instead of someone else) it becomes stealing again.

[Illbay]

So you're ANGRY that you can no longer steal the artistic creations of someone else, without compensating them?

I think I'm being proved more right all the time. This hubbub about "freedoms" is mostly just a smokescreen to hide the rampant desire for "up yours" license.

[zandtar]

Don't laugh. You may be paying a yearly fee for your PC software in the next few years. Unless you run Linux.

And suppose that happens. Guess what, I'll still know what stealing is.