Kazaa gets raided.

[MacG]

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Investigators from the Australian recording industry raided the Sydney offices of Internet file-swapping network Kazaa on Friday in search of evidence to support allegations of copyright infringements.
Read more at:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/02/06/kazaa.raid.ap/index.html

[UndeadBastard]

Poor Kazaa. MacG you should be and will be our forum newscaster :p

[MacG]

I like to keep up with the news.

[OboeGuru]

Ha, the RIAA and the like can't pin anything on Kazaa. Not without cheating the system at least.

[SoldierPrime]

I wana be the newscaster to...
LoL and if eros was one it would be his netscape links

[Infested_Al]

awww.

stupid people. we just want some free stuff, why must they hate.

big business is too greedy, always wanting profit :(

its like the music industry, i wouldnt download songs, but a) the stuff i like they dont sell in stores and b) the shit in the stores is WAY too much fucking money. i make 8.40 an hour, i dont feel like spending 2 and some hours at work to buy a cd

[dunchy]

The sad thing is there's allways more Kazzaa's out there...Bittorrent, grogster and other programs, plus the big fish are those at the FTP sites. Riaa will never win.

[Infested_Al]

yah. mirc is where it all started. and i dont even think the riaa even knows about mirc~

[Sfinx]

I wonder what the next "popular" clone will be. Any thoughts?

[dunchy]

Bittorrent for the common folk would be my guess.

[Yahhred]

Ha, the RIAA and the like can't pin anything on Kazaa. Not without cheating the system at least.

good ol' RIAA.....

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/riaa-psa.html :D



(this is kinda old but still good :p)

[Dark_Warhawk]

yah. mirc is where it all started. and i dont even think the riaa even knows about mirc~
Oh trust me they know, Riaa has bots all over mirc

I wonder what the next "popular" clone will be. Any thoughts?
Well I think Winmx could be the next big thing because its network was always alright plus you don’t need a hacked version to get rid of spyware as it spyware free already.

The sad thing is there's allways more Kazzaa's out there...Bittorrent, grogster and other programs, plus the big fish are those at the FTP sites. Riaa will never win.
I tried Bittorront and I like it, but the problem it’s not your traditional p2p program. Also don’t work very well with 56kers as you download is pretty much caped by your upload. I agree with the fact RIAA will never win, the only way they can stop it is if the government becomes more involved

awww.

stupid people. we just want some free stuff, why must they hate.

big business is too greedy, always wanting profit :(

its like the music industry, i wouldnt download songs, but a) the stuff i like they dont sell in stores and b) the shit in the stores is WAY too much fucking money. i make 8.40 an hour, i dont feel like spending 2 and some hours at work to buy a cd

Well to be honest that’s an old argument that no longer works. Itunes and Napster offer to download mp3’s rather cheap ( for there standards anyway) I know a site cheaper but its Russian and I not really sure if it’s legal for North Americans to have them or not, but it’s like 30 cents an album:) The problem with Napster and the like though is it only has popular stuff on there, and the fact I hate giving money to the recorded companies

[dunchy]

That idea of "downloading a song for 99 cents" really doesn't cut it in my books, it's expensive. I will purchase cd's and games, but not a cd where 18 songs are crap and 1 is good.

[Yahhred]

That idea of "downloading a song for 99 cents" really doesn't cut it in my books, it's expensive. I will purchase cd's and games, but not a cd where 18 songs are crap and 1 is good.

OY VEH!! 99 cents is a terrible price to pay just to get one song,

[Dark_Warhawk]

True I have not bought a CD in over a year working on two. Last Cd I bought was STAIND break the cycle. If the record company wants to increase profits I suggest they tell there artist to make better songs, because if they expect us to pay 20 bucks for a few god songs they nut
Napster and the like could be cheaper and should be but its really not that bad

[dunchy]

OY VEH!! 99 cents is a terrible price to pay just to get one song,

Basically when I hear that song over and over on the radio daily. Every hour pretty much, but I still buy a good cd when there's ones out there :)

[Mordecai2k]

i always buy records :p

[SoulreaverELITE]

i usually just borrow cds and rip them, or you can dl them using windows media player (you think i lie, but i dont :D)

[Mordecai2k]

lol wma fileage. nice ^^

[Visceral]

That idea of "downloading a song for 99 cents" really doesn't cut it in my books, it's expensive. I will purchase cd's and games, but not a cd where 18 songs are crap and 1 is good.How is that expensive? When you buy a CD in the store you're usually paying more than $1/song. For example, take Amazon.com's top seller right now - Norah Jones' new album. The MSRP is ~$19, and it has 13 songs. That's $1.46/song, so 99 cents is a pretty good deal, isn't it? Of course, Amazon.com's price is a lot less than the MSRP, but it's still more than $1/song. You also complain about only one song being good on a typical album and the rest being filler, but that's an argument FOR downloading a song for 99 cents - just download the one you want and pay 99 cents instead of paying almost $20 for the whole album!

[Mordecai2k]

How is that expensive? When you buy a CD in the store you're usually paying more than $1/song. For example, take Amazon.com's top seller right now - Norah Jones' new album. The MSRP is ~$19, and it has 13 songs. That's $1.46/song, so 99 cents is a pretty good deal, isn't it? Of course, Amazon.com's price is a lot less than the MSRP, but it's still more than $1/song. You also complain about only one song being good on a typical album and the rest being filler, but that's an argument FOR downloading a song for 99 cents - just download the one you want and pay 99 cents instead of paying almost $20 for the whole album!

You make a good point but it's not always going to work that way. And plus there are many other record stores that sell for much cheaper than anything at FYE, Amazon, Bestbuy, etc. If i'm gonna buy music i'd rather get the official copy at a store than pay to download it.

Hooray for soulseek

[Yahhred]

How is that expensive?


it is expensive to me because well, like dunchy said, you hear it over and over on the radio.

and they don't have any music i am really into, plus I don't have 99 cents ^^


You make a good point but it's not always going to work that way. And plus there are many other record stores that sell for much cheaper than anything at FYE, Amazon, Bestbuy, etc. If i'm gonna buy music i'd rather get the official copy at a store than pay to download it.


and yes that too :D

[Visceral]

Well if your rationale is that you can hear it on the radio for free then 1 cent would be expensive, so your argument is pointless. If you're actually going to BUY music, 99 cents per song is not expensive.

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[Yahhred]

Well if your rationale is that you can hear it on the radio for free then 1 cent would be expensive, so your argument is pointless. If you're actually going to BUY music, 99 cents per song is not expensive.

I have to disagree if the song was one cent, I think I would download it, 99 cents and 1 cent is quite a difference.

[Visceral]

Man, you guys are cheap... ;)

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[Yahhred]

Man, you guys are cheap... ;)


LOL you bet'cha :)

[AJ]

grr, pet peeve of mine, sorry, but..

MIRC is nothing. It's an IRC client, not a the chat protocol. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is the system that the client, MIRC logs you into. ;)

[Mordecai2k]

grr, pet peeve of mine, sorry, but..

MIRC is nothing. It's an IRC client, not a the chat protocol. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is the system that the client, MIRC logs you into. ;)

I don't know how to use MIRC :/

[AJ]

It's a chat client, how the hell hard can it be? Download some FAQs or read their documentation. :p

[SunTzu]

Rawr! Fuck the RIAA, sharing is caring.

[Mordecai2k]

Rawr! Fuck the RIAA, sharing is caring.

It can be fun!

By the way, who are you RekcutDrawoh? Were you on blizzforums?

[SunTzu]

The SCV Army. :)

[MacG]

yah. mirc is where it all started. and i dont even think the riaa even knows about mirc~MIRC, Hotline, FTP, Bulletin Board... All predates these popular file sharing programs. RIAA of course knows about these programs, but harder to take down. It is up to the user to host the files and tell the location. You take that host down, another one forms.

[Mordecai2k]

The SCV Army. :)

OMG YOU. WITH GIR AND STUFF! I Love Gir!

Invader Zim for life ^^

[SunTzu]

...What the heck you talkin 'bout, son?

[dunchy]

Add on the fact I'm never going to register my credit card online ever again. First time and last time it was, next day amex called up saying someone was trying to access my account and have new cards. *Sigh* those places like the new napster are credit card/paypal right?

[Kahuzal]

And a new network will form...

[Staind]

I would buy CDs more often but they're way overpriced and there's no real way to preview the other songs on the CD before you purchase (atleast here in my hick town of Canada). So what usually happens is you bring the CD home load it up and find that it's 12 songs of complete crap and 1 good song that you get bored of after listening to for 30 mins on repeat.

Why would you ever pay $0.99 to download a song when you can download it for free. By the way, I think downloading MP3's right now is currently legal in Canada, although uploading is not.

[ZeroDarkStar]

I use Morpheus, but Itunes is good too. It has so much better sound quality.

[MacG]

iTunes, not Itunes. Get it right!!! =P

[T-Dawg]

you get em MacG or AJ will chew him up. itunes. ibooks. GARAGE BAND! yay.

[ZeroDarkStar]

itune you out.

[OboeGuru]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but no major action has been taken agains the ShareReactor network, right?

[Infested_Al]

id buy cds if they were 10-15 dollars with tax(canadian).

but like i said, its hard to find cds i actually want to listen to, most top 40 has 2 radio hits and then 8-10 songs of garbage

[Fenguin]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but no major action has been taken agains the ShareReactor network, right?

Not that I've heard. :D Is it big enough to warrant attention? Kazaa seems to be the main focus now, but when they find that Kazaa is impenetrable, they will probably shift attention to smaller groups because they're so mean and evil.

[OboeGuru]

I hope they don't shify focus to ShareReactor. They have the best database of *cough*legitimately obtained*cough* software. :D

[Fenguin]

Really? I must join in on this Communism... where what? ;)

[OboeGuru]

Really? I must join in on this Communism... where what? ;)
Haha, it's funny because it's true.

I'm not that red am I? ;)

[Fenguin]

Well, let's see: you have red skin, you have red eyes, you have red hair, you have red blood, you have red red blood cells, you have red meat, you always wear red clothes. Sorry, you're 100% red ;)

[Yahhred]

Well, let's see: you have red skin, you have red eyes, you have red hair, you have red blood, you have red red blood cells, you have red meat, you always wear red clothes. Sorry, you're 100% red ;)

don't forget he is Stalin incarnate ;)

[Fenguin]

Oh yeah, that and he was also Stalin's ho :D

[OboeGuru]

And all this time I thought I was a reincarnate of some Nazi leader. Oh well, Stalin's cool, his first name was Josef, and that just screams coolness. :D

[Fenguin]

But everyone knows Iosef is cooler :D

[OboeGuru]

But you know what the absolute coolestest name ever is? Nick. :D ;)

[Fenguin]

You mean Nikolai. Gotta keep with the Russian names here ;)

[dunchy]

Hans was always my favorite Russian/German name. He was the man in Die Hard.