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KaZaa Gold?!
No honor among thieves
(old news - 09:22AM Wednesday Sep 11 2002)
tags: Fileswapping
In an ironic twist, apparently somebody hopes to make an illegal profit reselling peer to peer software available elsewhere for free. The folks at Kazaagold are offering what looks to be KaZaaLite 1.7.1 as a new, and innovative product. For $6.87 you can buy the software on CD, or download it for $9.95. If you're really feeling chipper you could sign up for the company's "Premium Instant Download" for $29.95, which includes, so they say, a Kazaa Virus Removal Tool and 24 hour e-mail technical support. A DNS lookup reveals the site to be a project run by Clocktower Media.

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kba4

join:2001-10-23
Akron, OH
·RoadRunner Cable


duplicate?

i thought i posted something similar to this, albeit not to the news, a few weeks ago, but nonetheless the more that are informed the better

»beware of 'kazaa gold'!

edit: i just read the title to the story... "...among thieves"? please. you're bringing down the otherwise good journalism with bias.
[text was edited by author 2002-09-11 09:33:31]

Nero534

join:2001-10-12
South Bend, IN

Re: duplicate?

Im going to go buy it right now....hey wait, i want 3 copies for backups...Pfft.
anonymous229

join:2002-08-31
Norfolk, VA
It's Out of Redmond,Washington. Bill Gates's son must be starting early trying to fill Dad's shoes.
elboomboom

join:2002-01-27
El Cajon, CA

Re: duplicate?

said by anonymous22:
It's Out of Redmond,Washington. Bill Gates's son must be starting early trying to fill Dad's shoes.
Gates has a son that old???

tomsprat
Draw Me A "Cold One"
Premium,ExMod 2002-04
join:2000-11-03
Fort Lauderdale, FL
clubs:

That was a good "heads-up", k4dwi. I think there is a niche for such a service, though, if it is run "legitimately". I can see a company starting up in a country that's immune to U.S. copyright law, then charging for P2p services that include filtering for viruses. No doubt, the RIAA is behind the virus infestations at Kazaa, which will prompt someone to start a service such as this. Too bad. If they, (the RIAA), would just provide a service with reasonable prices, etc., they could be benefitting from all of this, rather than tightening the noose around their own neck...
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Vivi
Mr Happy

join:2002-07-28
MD

Not New...

When I was searching out kazza a few months ago I came across several places trying to sell it. Pretty foolish. Everyone knows it's free. That's the whole idea...

MxxCon

join:1999-11-19
Brooklyn, NY
clubs:

make it really expensive

their phone number is 1.877.711.4580
it's toll free...for you
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tomkb
Premium
join:2000-11-15
Avon, OH
clubs:

No need to buy it

You can just download it from kazaa.

Count Hogula$
Notorious Dog
Premium
join:2002-06-19
Corona, CA

Or, 1 person buy it

Then distribute it via P2P.

winsyrstrife
Zillion - Master System
Premium
join:2002-04-30
Brooklyn, NY
clubs:

Re: Or, 1 person buy it

It's a shame that they'll be getting a good bit of money off of this though, from the unwitting public. Sometimes an uninformed customer can be good for business...

palmer_j_r
Congenital Optimist
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join:2000-06-08
Chicago, IL
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·1and1

piece of junk (insert expeletive here) software

When I found out over the weekend that some lovely little gobbledy gook programs were installing themselves via Kazaa I promptly deleted the software and spent a good half day eliminating stuff like, nxysumba.exe, among plenty other cryptic files.. Now, I'm not going to say it's not partially my responsibility, I did agree to download and install the software, it's just that I can not justify at this time paying for another product that could open a door for pesky little problems into my system and cause havoc. FYI, even with a software firewall and a virus scanner it still couldn't prevent this crap from getting in. by the by, for those who care, the name of the nasties was W32.LITMUS, trojan. It's especially pesky for WIN ME and WIN XP as it and I'm sure plenty other trojans can reside in the system restore files. Turning off System Restore before eradicating the problem helped!
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Joey
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MightyPez

join:2002-05-01
Saint Paul, MN

Re: piece of junk (insert expeletive here) software

That's why most folks use kazaa lite. spyware free.

ifarrell

join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC

Re: piece of junk (insert expeletive here) software

Just shows it takes a fool to sell to one.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

palmer_j_r
Congenital Optimist
Premium
join:2000-06-08
Chicago, IL
I was using Kazza Lite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, never paid of the product in the first place!!
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Joey
Living on Life's Little Intangibles...

Bird Dog
Another Bird
Premium
join:2002-03-07
Missouri

Just WinMX it!

Then all your problems are solved....Why download a tainted product then have to manually clean out the spy ware when you can download another app that is just as good or better, without spyware, none, ziltch, zero...


mr sean
Professional Infidel
Premium,ExMod 2001-07
join:2001-04-03
N. Absentia
clubs:

Re: Just WinMX it!

said by MightyPez:
That's why most folks use kazaa lite. spyware free.
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ArchAngel21x
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join:2001-10-28
Lincoln, NE
·Internet Nebraska

These Guys Really Are Dumb!

quote:
For $6.87 you can buy the software on CD, or download it for $9.95.
Most good businesses realize it's in their best interest to sell software via download for cheaper than shipping you a CD, box, and instructions.
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"Proud to be an American"
vampyre10

join:2002-05-18
Albany, NY

Kaaazaaap!

Wow, just what the RIAA needs.... a company they can pin their lawsuit on!
Can't sue Kazaa because there is no central server... but perhaps the company SELLING the software??!!??
I mean, with profit must come some responsibility.

Free rules supreme.
elboomboom

join:2002-01-27
El Cajon, CA

Re: Kaaazaaap!

The company selling the software will be targeted........

MisterMarcus

join:2001-11-10
San Diego, CA

Haha...

I....*acquired* a password to download this when I first ran across it, just out of curiosity to see what it was. I shoulda reported it, but I didn't think much of it at the time...it IS KaZaaLite, nothing more. The virus removal is nothing more than PC-cillin, if my memory serves me correctly, and the like.

They've changed the purchase now...before you just submitted the information (or in my case, bypassed that portion), and it took you to a download link..now they have it to where they want to 'process' your order and then send you the information in email, which defeats my method of 'entry'.

Bottom line, it's a fraud...and I'm shocked that CNet Downloads has them as a sponsored link. That tells me people are actually buying this.
tjmush

join:2002-09-11
Redmond, WA

Not Clocktower Media

I know those guys they are good guys. Apparently, they had an automated hosting service, which kazaa gold signed up at. They had nothing to do with kazaa gold, and have since booted them from their servers.

NeonLightning

@shawcable.net

UM an NOte i got from another workgroup

well i was reading in a few places where people have called clockwork media and it turns out that clockwork is a from for shermans to make some good case

Kazza Lite is Spywar

@212.219.x.x

Yes

Look at it this way kazaa lite kazaa gold are just like thoese itallian napstet thinks just use the normal one !

evstar

@pioneernet.net

who wrote this?

Has anyone done a DNS look up? It's crap. How do you get Clocktower from that? This author is full of it. Anyways look at this they issued a false rumor alert.

»www.clocktowermedia.com/
trikky9

join:2003-02-11
UK

Kazaa Gold Diggers!

I 'bought' the kazaa gold software on CD. The site said it would take up to 6 weeks to arrive, like 12 weeks on I haven't heard a thing. The contact email address I received with my receipt is bogus and I have no other means of getting in touch to say "where's my CD?". Has anyone else not got there goods! It's one thing charging too much for something, it's another when you don't even get what you paid too much for! Grrrrrrr!

alphal0ll

@insightBB.com

HEY SPY FREEKS

well im sorry that you payed for it but if you knew it was a rip off befor you bought it then you got what you deserved aslo as for kazza lite not having spy where in it some verson do and in fact i found some versions of kazza lite and kazza that deposet worms on your comp as soon as you sighn on any wase i sugest you get a spy where removal program and as for defeating spy where all to geather your e-mail softwhere has spy where on it your os has spy where on it just about every program you have out side of games ( some games have them too ) have spy where that companys use to see what you like to dictate the pop up adds you see as a lot of sights have the same thing going putting spy where cookies in you files that your clean up programs dont get because there in abstract locations most hidden in windows under a hidden file hey you may think im full of i i dont care if ya do but i speak the truth the best way to get rid of spy where is to get a debugging program and rewrite some of your system files aka system32 for other users depending if you have windows or what windows you are useing i recomind soft ice 3.4 or better just hope you got 800 bucks to shell out to get it lmao lmao lmao ps i know i didnt do good on the spelling side but im to lazy to fix it and my typos har de har har

grrrace

@144.138.x.x

i need help!

i went to www.kazaalite.com thinking i would be able to download kazaa lite there, instead the address changed to »63.1.876.... or something like that, and showed all the songs on my computer. i am thinking this is not a good sign... what's it done? and how can i get the free version of kazaa lite - is there one?

Fooled

@com.au

Downunder and down and out

Buyers be aware!!!
Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? If only I knew. Having teenager sons I agreed to download Kazaagold premium for the advertised price $29.90 later December 2003. After several attempts to download movies my sons and I just gave up, 15 attempts and not one worked. But alas that is not my quam.
I was dumbfounded when I received my credit card bill. The unscrupulous money grabbers had withdrawn US$120 from my account, 4 x the download fee.
An honest mistake I thought, it's nothing that cannot be rectified once I contacted kaaza support, yeah right!!
Do they even exist? I made over a dozen attempts to contact such site, leaving message after message and what did I get NOTHING!! not even one reply. There on line chat support site NEVER available, the toll free phone number is never answered.
So here I am paying costly for my trust. Where I come from they call this THEFT!! and dipping into someones hard earn money not twice, not three times but four times really takes the cake. I have call for a full investigation on the pirates of kazaagold and still they don't budge. But the battle is not over yet.
So dear naive lovers of the arts BE AWARE of this so call spin off site KazaaGold unless you don't mind throwing your saving into their hands or rather deep pockets.
NOT HAPPY KAZAAGOLD or rather should it be called fools gold.

Fooled

@com.au

KazaafoolsGold

BUYERS BE AWARE!!!
Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? If only I knew. Having teenager sons I agreed to download Kaazagold premium for the advertised price $29.90 in late December 2003. After several attempts to download movies my sons and I just gave up, 15 attempts and not one worked. But alas that is not my quam.
I was dumbfounded when I received my credit card bill. The unscrupulous money grabbers had withdrawn US$120 from my account, 4 x the download fee.
An honest mistake I thought, it's nothing that cannot be rectified once I contacted kaaza support, yeah right!!
Do they even exist? I made over a dozen attempts to contact such site, leaving message after message and what did I get NOTHING!! not even one reply. Their on line chat support site NEVER, avialabe, the toll free phone number is never answered.
So here I am paying costly for my trust. Where I come from they call this THEFT!! and dipping into someones hard earn money not twice, not three times but four times really takes the cake. I have called for a full investigation on the pirates of kazaaGold and still they don't budge. But the battle is not over yet.
So dear naive lovers of the arts BE AWARE of this so call spin off site KazaaGold unless you don't mind throwing your saving into their hands or rather deep pockets.
NOT HAPPY KAZAAGOLD or rather should it be called Kazaa fools gold.
brettmadman

join:2004-05-25

Is kazaa gold good?

If not, what mp3/movie downloading program would you recommend?

NikolasNoel

@qwest.net

Read This Before U Download Anything!

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