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Kazaa?

Editing the tech Review portion of the site here (changing advertisers) I see something freaky weird popped into view. Kazaa being advertised on Google. The real Kazaa. The link worked and everything. I am not going to link to the second largest pirating site ever. Heck no, not from my site. but i will tell you they are back, and they are asking for no money in return.

Question is, is it indie labled bands? are these bands going to make money from the traffice revenue of the adverts that kazaa gets?

I remember kazaa used to be bundled and hammers in advertisement. Those guys had to have raked in a huge amount of money from the traffic generated by their program.

Did someone buy them out or just buy the domain name and decide to bring it back or are they going Napster (the first biggest p2p site) and just give free music for a short while per each sign up and then charge after a few months ?

How will they compensate the music labels ? are they going to create their own music label?

I have no idea, will stay away from that site. Sheesh I hope they stop advertising on my site. unless they are legit. Then i am cool with it.

Hrmmm fishy. they have a little message at the bottom of the page

Free Music

Download Music For Free – Download Music MP3 Free Ringtones: Free Music Downloads Kazaa is committed to making music downloads free and more accessible to all music fans. Kazaa now will give web users the power to legally listen on-demand to a massive catalog of music, ring tones, from major labels, wherever they are on the Web – for FREE. The Kazaa music subscription service offers a premium experience that includes unlimited access to CD-quality music and advanced discovery, community and programming features in an advertising-free environment, and Kazaa subscribers also enjoy unlimited transfer of music to mobile phones. For more information, please visit Kazaa.

But they do not explain anything. Surely they can’t be. Do you think they are? NAAAAAAAAH, no way.

Really I haven’t been to the site in years, actually i think I could find the program on cnet, it’s where they linked the file anyway. They never covered their own bandwidth.

how can they expect to do it now ?
Adverts,must be adverts.

I was having a discussion of what pirating was in a forum that I typically converse in. I was having an issue with games for windows live not accepting my install cd key, the thread was created to inform the other users of said site of what betrayal i was facing from something i trusted to invest $60 into. Here is more on games for windows live having a limited install.
I said “no one pirates itunes garbage”. This person from the site gave a response that stunned me. I didn’t expect it , I didn’t believe it till the second time he stated it more clearly. He actually said “iTunes itself is free, some Apps are free, but with a jailbroken device you can find most any app you…..” it goes on a bit after that, but really. I can handle only so much. So I realized I was actually holding a conversation with someone who is brand new to the topic. This person did not see the heyday, this person got interested in computers and the internet, within the last three years. This person was born after 1994.
So I decided to make it clear for others who did not get to be a part of the boom. I give you internet history on it’s dirty side. The side that will not be in future history books.

I give you the response I gave him

You just now told me what age group you are in.
Sorry didn’t know how new you are.
Itunes the name means “music” (tunes is clue #1)
I tunes has been selling music for +5 years now.
The apps thing is quite new
Roughly 3 years

Back in the day, music was the number one controversial pirated item on the internet.
There used to be some major hitters in the pirating world.
Napster
Limewire
winmx
Kazzaa
Almost all are gone now.
Some have resurfaced as something else.
Truly if it was not for them, the public never would have demanded greater speeds for their internet connections and we would not have the internet the way it is now. 2.0 would not have been an option. php would not have been an option, flash well it would have demised…. well in a flash.
1994-1998 Music pirating was so common that radio station djs would make their playlist at home and bring to the station these crappy assed 32-64bit overly compressed 200k songs and play them on the radio. some of us would bitch how it sounded like the music was being played in a sewer drain.
Around 2000- 2002 Itunes was announced. No one moved for the first year. because it was free. but apple played a bunch of clever commercials. by 2004 all pirating had come to a skid. there was a huge standstill, because Kazaa was seized and millions of i.p. addresses were placed public as targets of interest by the riaa..

You know what… I have gone to far with this. i think I have a cool post for the tech blog… later dude.

Some of the time-line might be a tiny bit tilted, but it’s can’t be by much.