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"Kazaa timewasters"

Don't you just HATE people who waste your time with large, wrongly-named files?

For the last 6 hours or so, I've had "2Fast 2Furious" and "Terminator 3" downloading from Kazaa. "T3" is still going, but "2Fast 2Furious" finished a short time ago.

Only it's not "2Fast 2Furious", it's some crud called "Dazed and Confused".

What on Earth possesses people to waste not only the time of the downloaders, but also their own bandwidth?

And before anyone starts about piracy, I *will* be buying the DVDs when they are available!

Wookie, whats your email, I'll let you in on a good secret.

;) or just email me. [email protected]

hehe.

If you check the filename before downloading you can usually pick up 50% of the mis-named films, I downloaded three films last weekend, only one was what it was supposed to be :(
Seems to be a more common problem wth new releases because they know those are the films in demand.

Just been looking at a site linked from the Kazaa Lite 'Web' page - http://www.fasttrackmovies.com - that could be very useful!

Still, that does it for me for tonight - can't be bothered with any more tonight.

I'm off to bed to watch Solaris.

TTFN

Heh!

We must have downloaded off the same guy. My Fast and Furious 2 was Rush Hour.

Well, T3 was Ocean's Eleven.

Wonderful!

I've got Kazaa Lite, but have never bothered with AVI preview. This is only the 2nd/3rd time I've ever tried downloading movies - I usually only use it for MP3s. I usually just start them downloading and wait until they finish, and - oddly - I didn't know the preview thing would play incomplete AVIs!

I assumed that AVIs couldn't be played if they weren't complete, because most other players I've used won't do it - they will with MPGs, but not AVIs!

I'll go check T3 now...

Oh, one other amusing thing... a number of the "2Fast 2Furious" files have "Artist" set as "Van Diesel" - not only is it spelt wrong, but he isn't even in it!!!

Kazza Lite comes with AVI Preview as one of its tools. Very useful for time wasters.

Download a program called AVI Preview (I'm fairly sure that's what it's called) and you can watch unfinished .avi files you're downloading from Kazaa to check what they are.

Better yet, ditch Kazaa altogether and use Kazaa Lite - it comes with AVI Preview as well as being spyware-free.

Personally I have no problems with the idea of downloading movies. For example, I've been to see X-Men 2 and The Matrix Reloaded 3 times each and have decent copies of them on my PC yet I still have them both pre-ordered on DVD.

Many fake MP3s (with beeps etc) are placed by record companies. Bah.

But when it comes to films, I too have tried downloading ones I want to see, either after the cinema, or to see if they're any good (wanted to check out Tomb Raider for free in case I would be wasting money... and I was right to do so) and I nearly always end up with crap stuff like a romantic comedy or a five year old film. Makes me sick.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> And I think a large portion of fake files you find on the net are
> placed there by official sources

Sounds very plausible.

Of course, lower pricing, removal of region coding and universal release dates would be far more successful measures!