P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-08-02
I won’t miss Kazaa either. I was casual at best when I was using Kazaa. Limited MP3 and occasional GBA rom downloading (GBA ROMs only after the GBExtreme website went down). Kazaa is slow, unstable, and I can’t search for archives. It is leecher-friendly (a bad thing) and simply is outdated (especially with no incomplete/part-file sharing / swarming). I didn’t become a hardcore P2P user until Emule. Though I was a bit obsessive with Napster but it took Books, RPGs, Warez, and ROMs for me to become overly obsessive. Actually now, I hate Kazaa because of their lawsuit with P2PNet. But FastTrack as an free-for-all network that is 95% illegal content (Emule is about 85% illegal content the best out there I think except possibly Gnutella and Private BitTorrent trackers) will still live on because I’m pretty sure 2/3 of all Kazaa users use Kazaa lite Resurrection and not the original Kazaa media desktop. Kazaa will probably have to rename its network and lock-out the Kazaa Lite Resurrection clients via major protocol changes. FastTrack will probably be dead as a free-for-all filesharing network in a few years, but I could care less and wouldn’t miss it.
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The ‘Illegal pirated software’ is on media meant to be sold (Bootlegging/counterfeiting for profit). It is not the same as free-warez (P2P filesharing or friend giving copies to friends).
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The ‘CAM’ police gathers into the newest releases and goofs off in front of the theater. The one theater is actually better CAM patrolled than having one guy that didn’t goof off at all, but other theaters are left unguarded. I hate CAMs anyway. I’d rather get a screener, and will wait for the DVDrip if there isn’t one. I think the law is stupid though. Its probably ok for movie theaters to not want cameras but it should be an ejection without refund (very probable) or maybe a misdemeanor for the non-cooperatives or repeat offenders (the equivalent of throwing things into the field or excessive profanity/disturbance at a soccer stadium).
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I think I may put the insider-screener XVID in my Emule download queue (paused/stopped). I’m pretty sure if and when I start it, perhaps a year from now, It will still be on Emule and well sourced too. My friend Rick got me into movie theaters for free and he only worked at the mall where the theater was at!!! 3rd-hand freebie! I’m pretty sure, if he still worked there, he could get me screeners to share too. He is a well connected socialite, and Movie theater people aren’t paid or even trained that well. If rick worked at the mall right now I’d probably be able to get screeners just as well as free movie tickets.
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RIAA Loses another one (Not Hogan). The RIAA’s win/loss record is not looking good….
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Background knowledge is definitly very helpful in issuing a fair judgement. I think that recess or deferment to research and learn would be more appropriate response than just ‘denied’ though, but the law probably has no accomodation for it.
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More articles on Shawn Hogan standing up to the MPAA. I hope Shawn wins and he probably will because the RIAA / MPAA often only has file name(s) and an ip address(s) for evidence and the IP Address could be dynamic. The ownership backing of legit product probably will have no effect on the case as current law could care less.
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Emule and BitTorrent do not allow disabling of sharing of the incoming or incomplete folders. Kazaa does allow disabling of sharing of the incoming folder and it cannot share partial / incomplete files. That aside from it’s hack-ability and the lack of ability to search for archives (for warez and romz) as a file type is why Kazaa sux so much. Plus you’re lucky to get 2 days of continuous uptime max and is a pig and it has spyware. Emule, with at least a somewhat up-to-date ip blocker data, can easily run for 20-60 days at a time, which is window’s XP’s stability limits largely. It is always the noobs and leeches that get sued because they are the ones who are stupid and/or lazy, and Kazaa is buggy, exploitable, and has a much smaller learning curve than Emule (Emule is the geek’s dream once you learn the in’s and out’s) and an interface more aimed for computer-dummys than geeks.
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Some more articles over the Pirate Bay and the Swedish Pirate Party.
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I really hope that the Swedish pirate party gets seats in the parliament. I tried to change my voter registration to the PPUS but they ‘rejected’ my political party change – my new voter registration card has my previous party on it – Libertarian.
