I have signed this petition! :D
-Madd Maxx-
Thanks Maxx... Everyone who believes in Kazaa being good (including Maxx), please, sign the petition and pass it around, or the government will take over a whole damn lot of PC's... (Way over 10,000,000 o.O)
ya, when soo many ppl use it, the "governement" cant really enforce their laws.
-Madd Maxx-
ya, but ur not in north america....
you don't have to be in north america to use P2P, the internet is the same everywhere
no shit sj, But maybe pplz in foreign countries dont use p2p stuff.
what is the url for the p2p?
Well, It depends what you want. It's not ACTUALLY a website, it's a program you download. Just make sure when you install it to "unshare" all the files you don't want seen. Or, you can dig into other people's privacy my doing a search for their documents or whatever. Kazaa Roulette my friends.
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I think kazaa and the other p2p programs rob the software/music makers. Regardless what people think when they use them, for each song or program they download someone else losses money. It’s really as simple as that.
The big problem with controlling or stopping a p2p program like kazaa is the way machines interconnect in a peer to peer fashion, the network is decentralized. This basically means there is no central server or group of servers for the network. For example, if the government ever wanted to take the network down, it would be nearly impossible as it would have to somehow remove the thousands of Kazaa clients that are running on homes and workplaces across the globe. Kazaa is smart in this way because it avoids the problems that Napster had. Napster used a central server that all clients connected to upon startup. So when the RIAA realized the amount of revenue it was losing by the massive sharing, it promptly shut down the server and took most of the Napster network with it.
File-sharing is wrong. It violates copyright laws. How would you feel if you invented something that would have earned you millions but everyone just took it and copied the idea and said 'tough luck'. I have used it in the past to get some movies and mp3s. But I'm slowly killing my dependence on it...I'm not comfortable using it like I once was.
Can someone answer my question? If I move all my mp3s to the back-up hard drive, can legal snoopers see what I have if they come look? Or by removing the files from the OS disk where Kazaa is located, can anyone link those existing files to kazaa usage? What I mean to say is, can I avoid being sued by running kazaa but not sharing anything?
and Elvis, rock on....you haven't become hooked on the kazaa 'cigarette'.
the artists who make music dont get payment for music downloaded..........and if they dont, they wont make music anymore, thus there WILL be no more music..........catch my drift?
Guess I will add my two cents: It sounds a bit extreme to say that all P2P is bad, just because some people use it for bad. There are good and legal ways to use P2P that don't include music and movies. What's next, ban guns and crack!?! where will it end?
As far as copyrights go, I can make a video copy of a movie I own or a tape/cd copy of music I own, and LEGALLY give it out to my friends (it's called fair use). It can be debated that this is what P2P does, since there is no selling going on. It just so happens that copyright law needs to be updated to take into account the Internet.
There are also studies that show some people who P2P a lot are music buffs and also buy more CDs cuz of it, so maybe the greedy record companies are just worried that they won't be able to charge anymore $15 for something that costs .05 to make and much less then $1 goes to the artists.
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