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"KaZaA outlawed?"

Whether or not there is a grain of truth in this, I dont know.

I just heard from a friend that KaZaA (The thing that provides free MP3's and stuff) has being outlawed and if you continue to use it that music giants such as Warner Bros and Sony are going to begin prosecuting people.

Apparently this was on BBC news, which I didn't see today, but surely someone out there did.

So is this true or just a hoax to put people off downloading stuff?

NESSIE wrote:
> in the newspaper its been saying things like how they are going after
> individual users and charging a minimum of $150,000 per song
> downloaded. they are going after the people that are sharing there
> files, so if you disable the file share option you should be okay

Haha! ME! :D

Parr wrote:
> It is not a matter of spyware. YOu can be traced by the simple pinging
> of your ip. This pinging can be done as soon as you connect to someone
> to download from.
>
> They ping you, trace you to your isp. Ask the isp for your address and
> details, then come and kick you ass...

And they're gonna do this to many millions of people? Sure. I'll keep using it until I get a lawsuit.

Borat Sagdiyev wrote:
> Fishtobeking wrote:
> They should only try to bring down Kazaa and not the people that use
> it anyway.
>
> *nods in agreement*

And that's very difficult, with it being P2P and all.

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> 6 million... HAHA.
>
> Over 270 million people have downloaded Kazaa.
>
> But Kazaa has been ruled legal by a US Judge. But the RIAA is not
> going to start prosecuting individuals. So beware.

Why should we beware? :D

Tribute wrote:
> 6 miliion people don't use Kazaa.
>
> It's people like me who've downloaded it 4 times.

Explain how 4,000,000 people are online as I speak. Or type. Or whatever.

Heh, i use kazaa all the time, i hope they dont stop it or ban it or something like that...

Yer, there are hundreds of P2P software and whatever is second on the top of the list at www.downloads.com will be the next big thing.

Basically, they can't do jack.

I fthey are going to try to prosecute millions of people, who can quite rightly tell them to boogger off, what can they do? They don;t have the money to take us all to court. Don;t worry you fools who have deleted it. Even if they shut it down another would pop-up.

Well just copy and paste the ¿ into a notepad document and save it for future use.

Yeah I know but I don't know how to get the upside down '?' plus I can't use Word if that's where you got it from.