KaZaA Sold by anon Monday 21-Jan-2002 According to this article from DotcomScoop.com, the website for file-sharing service KaZaA informed users earlier today that a new software was ready and hinted that the company had been sold. But the site has reverted back to its original form, although a page containing a new terms of use policy, which is not linked anywhere on the website, suggests that KaZaA is now based in Australia (it was, or possibly still is, based in Amsterdam) and is owned by a firm called Sharman Network Services. The terms also suggest that KaZaA will launch a paid product. Update: KaZaA released a statement this morning confirming sale and relaunch of the service: " Jan. 21, 2002 -- Sharman Networks Limited, a privately held company, has purchased certain assets of KaZaA BV, including the popular consumer site KaZaA.com, distributor of KaZaA Media Desktop software. KaZaA BV is the Netherlands-based software and products company that founded KaZaA.com. The transaction was announced by Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming.
KaZaA Media Desktop is a full-featured peer-to-peer file sharing software that allows users to search, download, organize and play media files. Included in Sharman's purchase of assets are the license for the FastTrack P2P Stack, the KaZaA.com Web site, name, and logos.
"We are thrilled at our opportunity to resume the KaZaA service and further develop the KaZaA brand,'' stated Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming. "We value the millions of users of KaZaA's software and will continue to enhance and grow our core offerings."
KaZaA BV will continue to operate its remaining assets." Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Warner Robins, GA |  Ahhhhh If Only
Thank you riaa for helping to give birth to programs now that A) distribute the download sources, thus letting me use the max availible downstream compared to the 1 to 1 exchange napster used, and B) made it possible to elimanate any central server, thus making tracking the actual files shared, and the COMPENSATION rightfully due the artists they are SUPPOSED to protect IMPOSSIBLE to determine.
as far as Kazaa specifically, give me morpheus over kazaa ANY day, pop-up ads are ANNOYING as hell to start with, but atleast Morpheus doesnt come packaged with 3rd party spy ware  :(
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Hatboro, PA | RIAA Yep. the RIAA really missed the boat - they can't see the trees for the forest. Napster could've been a golden goose - but NOOOOOOOOOOO - can't have that!
Ken
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| | | If KaZaA becomes a paid product I'm moving to..... If KaZaA becomes a paid product I'm moving to Morpheus. | |
|  | | | Re: If KaZaA becomes a paid product I'm moving to..... Just continue useing 1.3.3 and keep backups of these progs on another disk. I DLed 1.4 a while back but it may have a time bomb to self destruct and take out any other version it can find on your machine. Certainly any new owner of kazaa would want all previous versions of Kazaa to disappear. Also, the forum boards at kazaa are gone which stiffles user communications. Is there another site that has well used forums for each of the p2p progs out there? | |
| | | | | Re: If KaZaA becomes a paid product I'm moving to..... www.zeropaid.com is a cool site for p2p programs and reviews.
Also, entering:
127.0.0.1 ads.musiccity.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
in your system hosts file stops ads. I haven't blocked the musiccity.com ads because these guys need to make money some how. But, bye bye doubleclick crap.
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| | | | | | Re: If KaZaA becomes a paid product I'm moving to..... Hey dale, could you please explain a bit about blocking the ads? Where is this "hosts" file located? I searched my C: drive for it, and just got unopenable apps. Thanks! | |
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Falls Church, VA | Re: If KaZaA becomes a paid product I'm moving to..... said by IceMan5043:
Hey dale, could you please explain a bit about blocking the ads? Where is this "hosts" file located? I searched my C: drive for it, and just got unopenable apps. Thanks!
On a Win 9x machine, it's in C:\Windows.
On NT/2000/XP machines, its in C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Can't say where it is if you're running ME, but I'd guess same as the 9x series. | |
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Detroit, MI | Re: Another wasted investment? said by Nightfall:
Anyone already on Kazaa...some words of advice. Dump em and install Morpheus.
Good advice. Also download adaware from »www.lavasoftusa.net and run a scan on your system.
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| | morpheus and kazaa are the same. Morpheus, Kazaa, and Grokster are the same thing. They all use the FastTrack system. So it will not make any difference if you switch to Morpheus from Kazaa.
I find it really stupid that you guys are complaining about ads. How big are those ads? 5k? give me a break. | |
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| |  NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
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Grand Rapids, MI | It's not the ads that bother me...it is the spyware.
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| | aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh Paying for P2P apps just won't work, no one will buy it. This kind of reminds me of drumbeat; www.drumbeat.info ;What these people did is making a pay client to connect to OpenNap servers(aka Napigator servers), then inserted special code to sniff out hidden servers linked to public servers by reading the opennap registry tables. From the software developers point of view, of course they would want to provide the highest degree of connectivity to the end user, because they have paid for that product. But for the server owners (like me) it means doom because we are no longer able to run servers without some other client sniffing us out and making us public without our permission. Also it does this to us.
ö∙ Clones detected from 207.237.202.185 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 66.68.52.20 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 66.67.58.1 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 213.168.72.77 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 216.134.31.241 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 142.169.67.23 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 216.164.155.82 [1]
ö∙ Server freaknasty killed CJS014: ghost (fr
ö∙ Clones detected from 203.164.234.8 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 4.3.191.147 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 204.39.67.23 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 152.66.243.229 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 64.170.154.151 [1]
ö∙ Clones detected from 217.80.175.152 [1]
You get the picture, this guy makes his client repeadly try to connect to the servers AGAIN even though the client is already connected. This also slows down the server for other legit clients sharing/looking for songs.
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| | | dodging the law It looks to me like Kazaa is simply moving to Australia to avoid current and future lawsuits. The pay stuff is probably not for real. | |
| | | Anon | Re: dodging the law in AUS Although i appreciate the thought, and always love hearing people who crave a conspiracy, it's just crap.
You may not realise this, but in Australia copyright laws and the like are MUCH stricter than in the US. Any company who makes it even slightly easier to breach copyright can easily by sued.
In fact, you can (not that it happens) be arrested for having a photocopier in a book store/library, which obviously contains copyrighted material, without putting a sign on it saying that reproduction of copyrighted material is criminal.
It sounds ludicrous, but if Napster were in Australia, the court case would have lasted two days. Bye bye open file-sharing. | |
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| | Its Time to Wake up. Come on Guys, At this point it is obvious that the programmers behind kazaa and morpheus are ready to jump ship. I gurantee that in a month or two these programs will just fade into the lime light. Read the new terms, they are already hinting that it is time for bigger and better things. And if Kazaa and Morpheus go to hell, there is always WinMX. Besides Morpheus runs like shit on NT systems. | |
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Interesting
Another wasted investment?